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Tuberculosis Transmission among Immigrants and Autochthonous Populations of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, October 2013
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Title
Tuberculosis Transmission among Immigrants and Autochthonous Populations of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia
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PLOS ONE, October 2013
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0077635
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Authors

Bright Varghese, Philip Supply, Mohammed Shoukri, Caroline Allix-Beguec, Ziad Memish, Naila Abuljadayel, Raafat Al-Hakeem, Fahad AlRabiah, Sahal Al-Hajoj

Abstract

Eastern province of Saudi Arabia is an industrial zone with large immigrant population and high level of tuberculosis case notification among immigrants. The impact of immigration and current trends of tuberculosis transmission among immigrants and autochthonous population in the region had not been investigated so far using molecular tools.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 20%
Student > Master 13 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Professor 5 6%
Student > Postgraduate 4 5%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 23 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 4%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 26 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 20 October 2017.
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#7,102,446
of 22,727,570 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#84,293
of 193,986 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#67,150
of 211,883 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,976
of 5,139 outputs
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