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The evolution of knowledge about viral hepatitis in Amazon region: from epidemiology and etiology to the prophilaxy

Overview of attention for article published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, September 2014
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Title
The evolution of knowledge about viral hepatitis in Amazon region: from epidemiology and etiology to the prophilaxy
Published in
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, September 2014
DOI 10.1590/s0037-86822004000700003
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gilberta Bensabath, Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares

Abstract

Since the 1950 years a disease similar to yellow fever but thought to be a new disease with unknown etiology has been described to health and researcher authorities. This disease occurs in Jurua, Purus and Madeira Rivers valleys. It is feared by local people by its high lethality. It is clinically a hepato-encephalopathy (Average survival time of 5-6 days) About 90% of sick people with typical symptoms go to death. The disease is popularly known as black fever of Lábrea and by pathologist as Lábrea hepatites after the city where the first cases were observed. The specific histopatologic picture of vesicular degeneration of hepatocytes like spider cells motivate the local pathologist to think as a new disease: Lábrea hepatitis. The finding of HBsAg and marker of hepatites D virus (HDV) in the serum motivate the researchers to think the disease as a superinfection of HDV in chronic carriers of HBV. In absence of a specific vaccine against HDV, the vaccine against HBV, must be given soon after the birth is the recommended prevention.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 13 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 13 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 23%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 15%
Student > Bachelor 2 15%
Student > Master 2 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Other 2 15%
Unknown 1 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 38%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 8%
Unknown 1 8%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 12 October 2021.
All research outputs
#5,446,210
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
#93
of 1,193 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#56,196
of 263,344 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
#1
of 13 outputs
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