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The geographic distribution of onchocerciasis in the 20 participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: (2) pre-control endemicity levels and estimated number infected

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, July 2014
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Title
The geographic distribution of onchocerciasis in the 20 participating countries of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control: (2) pre-control endemicity levels and estimated number infected
Published in
Parasites & Vectors, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-7-326
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Authors

Honorat GM Zouré, Mounkaila Noma, Afework H Tekle, Uche V Amazigo, Peter J Diggle, Emanuele Giorgi, Jan HF Remme

Abstract

The original aim of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) was to control onchocerciasis as a public health problem in 20 African countries. In order to identify all high risk areas where ivermectin treatment was needed to achieve control, APOC used Rapid Epidemiological Mapping of Onchocerciasis (REMO). REMO involved spatial sampling of villages to be surveyed, and examination of 30 to 50 adults per village for palpable onchocercal nodules. REMO has now been virtually completed and we report the results in two articles. A companion article reports the delineation of high risk areas based on expert analysis. The present article reports the results of a geostatistical analysis of the REMO data to map endemicity levels and estimate the number infected.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 135 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 134 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 19%
Researcher 20 15%
Student > Master 17 13%
Other 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Other 26 19%
Unknown 26 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 17%
Immunology and Microbiology 10 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 6%
Mathematics 7 5%
Other 30 22%
Unknown 28 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 11 June 2021.
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#7,445,571
of 22,761,738 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#1,854
of 5,453 outputs
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#73,416
of 228,547 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#13
of 49 outputs
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