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Biology and pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, January 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (70th percentile)

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Title
Biology and pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-5-6
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, Naveed Ahmed Khan

Abstract

Acanthamoeba is a free-living protist pathogen, capable of causing a blinding keratitis and fatal granulomatous encephalitis. The factors that contribute to Acanthamoeba infections include parasite biology, genetic diversity, environmental spread and host susceptibility, and are highlighted together with potential therapeutic and preventative measures. The use of Acanthamoeba in the study of cellular differentiation mechanisms, motility and phagocytosis, bacterial pathogenesis and evolutionary processes makes it an attractive model organism. There is a significant emphasis on Acanthamoeba as a Trojan horse of other microbes including viral, bacterial, protists and yeast pathogens.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 543 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 109 20%
Student > Master 79 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 12%
Researcher 54 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 30 5%
Other 81 15%
Unknown 130 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 120 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 79 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 68 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 50 9%
Environmental Science 16 3%
Other 67 12%
Unknown 151 27%
Attention Score in Context

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 15 January 2024.
All research outputs
#5,224,633
of 25,383,278 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#1,142
of 5,963 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,338
of 251,903 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#11
of 40 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,383,278 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,963 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 40 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its contemporaries.