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| Title |
Characterisation and Carriage Ratio of Clostridium difficile Strains Isolated from a Community-Dwelling Elderly Population in the United Kingdom
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0022804 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Fabio Miyajima, Paul Roberts, Andrew Swale, Valerie Price, Maureen Jones, Michael Horan, Nicholas Beeching, Jonathan Brazier, Christopher Parry, Neil Pendleton, Munir Pirmohamed |
| Abstract |
Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) appears to be an increasing problem. Reported carriage rates by C. difficile are debatable with suggestions that primary asymptomatic carriage is associated with decreased risk of subsequent diarrhoea. However, knowledge of potential reservoirs and intestinal carriage rates in the community, particularly in the elderly, the most susceptible group, is limited. We have determined the presence of C. difficile in the faeces of a healthy elderly cohort living outside of long-term care facilities (LCFs) in the United Kingdom. |
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
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 79 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 23 | 29% |
| Other | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 18% |
| Unknown | 8 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 32% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 15% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 9 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 24 August 2011.
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#15,234,609
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#129,675
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#86,873
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#1,606
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