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| Title |
Sixty years trying to define the malaria burden in Africa: have we made any progress?
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0227-x |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert W Snow |
| Abstract |
Controversy surrounds the precise numbers of malaria deaths and clinical episodes in Africa. This would not have surprised malariologists working in Africa 60 years ago as they began to unravel the enigma that is 'malaria'. Malaria is a complex disease manifesting as a multitude of symptoms, degrees of severity and indirect morbid consequences. Clinical immunity develops quickly and the presence of infection cannot always be used to distinguish between malaria and other illnesses. During the 1950s and 1960s parasite prevalence was used in preference to statistics on malaria mortality and morbidity. An argument is made for a resurrection of this measure of the quantity of malaria across Africa as a more reliable means to understand the impact of control. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 27% |
| Spain | 2 | 13% |
| Egypt | 1 | 7% |
| South Africa | 1 | 7% |
| Turkey | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 4 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 67% |
| Scientists | 2 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 17% |
| Researcher | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 18 | 20% |
| Unknown | 14 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 36% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 8% |
| Mathematics | 4 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 16% |
| Unknown | 15 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 06 May 2016.
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#3,139,492
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,805
of 3,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,914
of 356,257 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#36
of 66 outputs
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