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Mendeley readers
Title |
Teaching old drugs new tricks to stop malaria invasion in its tracks
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Published in |
BMC Biology, September 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/s12915-015-0185-6 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Vasant Muralidharan, Boris Striepen |
Abstract |
Malaria is a common and life-threatening disease endemic in large parts of the world. The emergence of antimalarial drug resistance is threatening disease-control measures that depend heavily on treatment of clinical malaria. The intracellular malaria parasite is particularly vulnerable during its brief extracellular stage of the life cycle. Wilson et al. describe a screen targeting these extracellular parasite stages and make the surprising discovery that clinically used macrolide antibiotics are potent inhibitors of parasite invasion into erythrocytes.See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/13/52. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |
Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
Germany | 1 | 3% |
Nigeria | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 24 | 83% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 7 | 24% |
Researcher | 6 | 21% |
Other | 4 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 10% |
Other | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 5 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 31% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 17% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 7% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 7% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 3% |
Other | 3 | 10% |
Unknown | 7 | 24% |