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| Title |
Upper-Room Ultraviolet Light and Negative Air Ionization to Prevent Tuberculosis Transmission
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS Medicine, March 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000043 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
A. Roderick Escombe, David A. J Moore, Robert H Gilman, Marcos Navincopa, Eduardo Ticona, Bailey Mitchell, Catherine Noakes, Carlos Martínez, Patricia Sheen, Rocio Ramirez, Willi Quino, Armando Gonzalez, Jon S Friedland, Carlton A Evans |
| Abstract |
Institutional tuberculosis (TB) transmission is an important public health problem highlighted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the emergence of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant TB. Effective TB infection control measures are urgently needed. We evaluated the efficacy of upper-room ultraviolet (UV) lights and negative air ionization for preventing airborne TB transmission using a guinea pig air-sampling model to measure the TB infectiousness of ward air. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 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 | 29% |
| United States | 3 | 21% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 5 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 71% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 21% |
| Scientists | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 280 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 273 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 60 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 43 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 14 | 5% |
| Other | 50 | 18% |
| Unknown | 59 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 80 | 29% |
| Engineering | 37 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 11 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 10 | 4% |
| Other | 50 | 18% |
| Unknown | 73 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 April 2024.
All research outputs
#689,195
of 25,663,438 outputs
Outputs from PLOS Medicine
#1,093
of 5,232 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,676
of 116,825 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS Medicine
#5
of 49 outputs
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