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The epidemiology of infectious mononucleosis in Northern Scotland: a decreasing incidence and winter peak

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, March 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
The epidemiology of infectious mononucleosis in Northern Scotland: a decreasing incidence and winter peak
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, March 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-14-151
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Authors

Elizabeth Visser, Denis Milne, Ian Collacott, David McLernon, Carl Counsell, Mark Vickers

Abstract

Infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is almost ubiquitous in humans and generally occurs at two ages: infantile, which is usually asymptomatic and associated with poorer socioeconomic conditions, and adolescent, which causes infectious mononucleosis (IM) in ~25% cases. The determinants of whether the infection causes IM remain uncertain. We aimed to evaluate seasonality and temporal trends in IM.

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 39 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 38 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 21%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Other 2 5%
Other 8 21%
Unknown 11 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 13 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 08 August 2022.
All research outputs
#3,258,047
of 23,573,357 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1,070
of 7,855 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,136
of 224,958 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#22
of 147 outputs
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