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| Title |
Monitoring parasite diversity for malaria elimination in sub-Saharan Africa
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| Published in |
Science, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1259423 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anita Ghansah, Lucas Amenga-Etego, Alfred Amambua-Ngwa, Ben Andagalu, Tobias Apinjoh, Marielle Bouyou-Akotet, Victoria Cornelius, Lemu Golassa, Voahangy Hanitriniaina Andrianaranjaka, Deus Ishengoma, Kimberly Johnson, Edwin Kamau, Oumou Maïga-Ascofaré, Dieudonne Mumba, Paulina Tindana, Antoinette Tshefu-Kitoto, Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Yavo William, Dominic P Kwiatkowski, Abdoulaye A Djimde |
| Abstract |
The African continent continues to bear the greatest burden of malaria and the greatest diversity of parasites, mosquito vectors, and human victims. The evolutionary plasticity of malaria parasites and their vectors is a major obstacle to eliminating the disease. Of current concern is the recently reported emergence of resistance to the front-line drug, artemisinin, in South-East Asia in Plasmodium falciparum, which calls for preemptive surveillance of the African parasite population for genetic markers of emerging drug resistance. Here we describe the Plasmodium Diversity Network Africa (PDNA), which has been established across 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure that African scientists are enabled to work together and to play a key role in the global effort for tracking and responding to this public health threat. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 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 Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| South Africa | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 73% |
| Scientists | 3 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 181 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 170 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 41 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 18% |
| Researcher | 31 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 25 | 14% |
| Unknown | 25 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 37 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 34 | 19% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 13 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 28 | 15% |
| Unknown | 28 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 29 April 2020.
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#2,118,857
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#27,509
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#22,596
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Outputs of similar age from Science
#400
of 903 outputs
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