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Negative effect of smoking on the performance of the QuantiFERON TB gold in tube test

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2012
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Title
Negative effect of smoking on the performance of the QuantiFERON TB gold in tube test
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-12-379
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Authors

Martine G Aabye, Thomas Stig Hermansen, Morten Ruhwald, George PrayGod, Daniel Faurholt-Jepsen, Kidola Jeremiah, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Nyagosya Range, Henrik Friis, John Changalucha, Aase B Andersen, Pernille Ravn

Abstract

False negative and indeterminate Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) results are a well documented problem. Cigarette smoking is known to increase the risk of tuberculosis (TB) and to impair Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) responses to antigenic challenge, but the impact of smoking on IGRA performance is not known. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of smoking on IGRA performance in TB patients in a low and high TB prevalence setting respectively.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 49 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 18%
Student > Master 8 16%
Student > Bachelor 6 12%
Other 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 7 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 46%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 8%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 8 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 13 January 2013.
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#13,375,146
of 22,691,736 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#3,323
of 7,643 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#158,261
of 280,466 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#73
of 174 outputs
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