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| Title |
Unsolved matters in leprosy: a descriptive review and call for further research
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12941-016-0149-x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carlos Franco-Paredes, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales |
| Abstract |
Leprosy, a chronic mycobacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is an infectious disease that has ravaged human societies throughout millennia. This ancestral pathogen causes disfiguring cutaneous lesions, peripheral nerve injury, ostearticular deformity, limb loss and dysfunction, blindness and stigma. Despite ongoing efforts in interrupting leprosy transmission, large numbers of new cases are persistently identified in many endemic areas. Moreover, at the time of diagnosis, most newly identified cases have considerable neurologic disability. Many challenges remain in our understanding of the epidemiology of leprosy including: (a) the precise mode and route of transmission; (b) the socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioral factors that promote its transmission; and |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 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 | 2 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 14% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 7% |
| Colombia | 1 | 7% |
| Australia | 1 | 7% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 4 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 79% |
| Scientists | 2 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 208 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 205 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 13% |
| Researcher | 21 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 14 | 7% |
| Other | 37 | 18% |
| Unknown | 60 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 53 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 14 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 22 | 11% |
| Unknown | 75 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 22 April 2019.
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Altmetric has tracked 23,724,077 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 625 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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