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| Title |
Population-Based Incidence of Typhoid Fever in an Urban Informal Settlement and a Rural Area in Kenya: Implications for Typhoid Vaccine Use in Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0029119 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert F. Breiman, Leonard Cosmas, Henry Njuguna, Allan Audi, Beatrice Olack, John B. Ochieng, Newton Wamola, Godfrey M. Bigogo, George Awiti, Collins W. Tabu, Heather Burke, John Williamson, Joseph O. Oundo, Eric D. Mintz, Daniel R. Feikin |
| Abstract |
High rates of typhoid fever in children in urban settings in Asia have led to focus on childhood immunization in Asian cities, but not in Africa, where data, mostly from rural areas, have shown low disease incidence. We set out to compare incidence of typhoid fever in a densely populated urban slum and a rural community in Kenya, hypothesizing higher rates in the urban area, given crowding and suboptimal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 293 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 287 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 49 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 13% |
| Researcher | 35 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 23 | 8% |
| Other | 50 | 17% |
| Unknown | 69 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 76 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 37 | 13% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 18 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 17 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 15 | 5% |
| Other | 49 | 17% |
| Unknown | 81 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 18 July 2023.
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#5,256,565
of 24,736,359 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#81,810
of 214,155 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,223
of 255,321 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#737
of 3,285 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,736,359 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 214,155 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
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