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| Title |
Clostridium difficile exposure as an insidious source of infection in healthcare settings: an epidemiological model
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-13-376 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Laith Yakob, Thomas V Riley, David L Paterson, Archie CA Clements |
| Abstract |
Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients. Its epidemiology has shifted in recent years from almost exclusively infecting elderly patients in whom the gut microbiota has been disturbed by antimicrobials, to now also infecting individuals of all age groups with no recent antimicrobial use. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 4 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 89 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 18 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 16% |
| Mathematics | 5 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 4% |
| Engineering | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 20 | 22% |
| Unknown | 20 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 27 August 2013.
All research outputs
#13,374,110
of 23,577,761 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3,074
of 7,854 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#90,204
of 177,054 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#47
of 146 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,577,761 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,854 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 146 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 67% of its contemporaries.