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| Title |
Viral hemorrhagic fevers: advancing the level of treatment
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, March 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-31 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Giuseppe Ippolito, Heinz Feldmann, Simone Lanini, Francesco Vairo, Antonino Di Caro, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Emanuele Nicastri |
| Abstract |
The management of viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) has mainly focused on strict infection control measures, while standard clinical interventions that are provided to patients with other life-threatening conditions are rarely offered to patients with VHFs. Despite its complexity, a proper clinical case management of VHFs is neither futile nor is it lacking in scientific rationale. Given that patient outcomes improve when treatment is started as soon as possible, development and implementation of protocols to promptly identify and treat patients in the earliest phases of diseases are urgently needed. Different pharmacological options have been proposed to manage patients and, as for other life-threatening conditions, advanced life support has been proved effective to address multiorgan failure. In addition, high throughput screening of small molecular libraries has emerged as a novel promising way to find new candidates drugs for VHFs therapy and a relevant number of new molecules are currently under investigation. Here we discuss the current knowledge about VHF clinical management to propose a way to step up the approach to VHFs beyond the mere application of infection control measures. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Peru | 1 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 29% |
| Scientists | 2 | 29% |
| Members of the public | 2 | 29% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 79 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Greece | 1 | 1% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 18 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 14% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 6% |
| Unspecified | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 18 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2023.
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#4,747,057
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,199
of 3,616 outputs
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#30,328
of 162,824 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#18
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,910,532 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,616 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.6. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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