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| Title |
Viral etiologies of lower respiratory tract infections among Egyptian children under five years of age
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| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-12-350 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Caroline F Shafik, Emad W Mohareb, Aymen S Yassin, Madgy A Amin, Amani El Kholy, Hanaa El-Karaksy, Fouad G Youssef |
| Abstract |
Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) are responsible for a considerable number of deaths among children, particularly in developing countries. In Egypt and the Middle East region, there is a lack of data regarding the viral causes of LRTI. In this study, we aimed to identify the relative prevalence of various respiratory viruses that contribute to LRTIs in young children. Although, nucleic acid-based methods have gained importance as a sensitive tool to determine the viral infections, their use is limited because of their prohibitive cost in low-income countries. Therefore, we applied three different laboratory methods, and presented the different virus prevalence patterns detected by each method. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 88 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 18% |
| Unknown | 23 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 38% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 10% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 8 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 26 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 14 November 2015.
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#3,177,644
of 22,689,790 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1,047
of 7,643 outputs
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#33,341
of 278,829 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#16
of 158 outputs
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