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| Title |
Changing patterns of clinical malaria since 1965 among a tea estate population located in the Kenyan highlands
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, May 2000
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| DOI | 10.1016/s0035-9203(00)90310-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
G.D. Shanks, K. Biomndo, S.I. Hay, R.W. Snow |
| Abstract |
The changing epidemiology of clinical malaria since 1965 among hospitalized patients was studied at a group of tea estates in the western highlands of Kenya. These data indicate recent dramatic increases in the numbers of malaria admissions (6.5 to 32.5% of all admissions), case fatality (1.3 to 6%) and patients originating from low-risk, highland areas (34 to 59%). Climate change, environmental management, population migration, and breakdown in health service provision seem unlikely explanations for this changing disease pattern. The coincident arrival of chloroquine resistance during the late 1980s in the subregion suggests that drug resistance is a key factor in the current pattern and burden of malaria among this highland population. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 80 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Kenya | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 24% |
| Researcher | 16 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 8 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 34% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 11% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 10% |
| Mathematics | 6 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
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 03 October 2017.
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