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Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut: Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, July 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 5,984)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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Title
Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut: Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-7-329
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Authors

Mauricio RV Sant’Anna, Hector Diaz-Albiter, Kelsilândia Aguiar-Martins, Waleed S Al Salem, Reginaldo R Cavalcante, Viv M Dillon, Paul A Bates, Fernando A Genta, Rod J Dillon

Abstract

Phlebotomine sand flies transmit the haemoflagellate Leishmania, the causative agent of human leishmaniasis. The Leishmania promastigotes are confined to the gut lumen and are exposed to the gut microbiota within female sand flies. Here we study the colonisation resistance of yeast and bacteria in preventing the establishment of a Leishmania population in sand flies and the ability of Leishmania to provide colonisation resistance towards the insect bacterial pathogen Serratia marcescens that is also pathogenic towards Leishmania.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Ukraine 1 <1%
Unknown 151 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 23%
Researcher 22 14%
Student > Master 22 14%
Student > Bachelor 17 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Other 19 12%
Unknown 32 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 66 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 28 18%
Immunology and Microbiology 11 7%
Environmental Science 4 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 2%
Other 10 6%
Unknown 38 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 81. 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 22 November 2014.
All research outputs
#526,393
of 25,364,603 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#46
of 5,984 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,771
of 239,754 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#2
of 104 outputs
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