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The microbiome and critical illness

Overview of attention for article published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, December 2015
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177

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Title
The microbiome and critical illness
Published in
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, December 2015
DOI 10.1016/s2213-2600(15)00427-0
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Authors

Robert P Dickson

Abstract

The central role of the microbiome in critical illness is supported by a half century of experimental and clinical study. The physiological effects of critical illness and the clinical interventions of intensive care substantially alter the microbiome. In turn, the microbiome predicts patients' susceptibility to disease, and manipulation of the microbiome has prevented or modulated critical illness in animal models and clinical trials. This Review surveys the microbial ecology of critically ill patients, presents the facts and unanswered questions surrounding gut-derived sepsis, and explores the radically altered ecosystem of the injured alveolus. The revolution in culture-independent microbiology has provided the tools needed to target the microbiome rationally for the prevention and treatment of critical illness, holding great promise to improve the acute and chronic outcomes of the critically ill.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 360 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 13%
Researcher 47 13%
Student > Master 37 10%
Other 30 8%
Student > Bachelor 26 7%
Other 72 20%
Unknown 103 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 114 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 38 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 25 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 24 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 4%
Other 32 9%
Unknown 117 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 177. 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 05 December 2022.
All research outputs
#227,529
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
#223
of 2,867 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,537
of 394,836 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
#2
of 61 outputs
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