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| Title |
Transfusion-Associated Lyme Disease – Although Unlikely, It Is Still a Concern Worth Considering
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02070 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Charles S. Pavia, Maria M. Plummer |
| Abstract |
Even though hematogenous spread of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, has been well documented, and there are more than 300,000 cases per year of Lyme disease in the United States, no evidence (anecdotal or published) of transfusion-associated Lyme disease has been reported. Such a possibility would seem to exist but various factors, as discussed in this perspective, make this less likely to occur. Nonetheless, if not done already, safeguards need to be put in place at blood collection and dispensing facilities, possibly with the assistance of diagnostic microbiology and immunology laboratories, to ensure that the potential for the transfer of the Lyme disease spirochete through a blood transfusion remains a theoretical consideration rather than a real possibility. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 28 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 States | 9 | 32% |
| France | 4 | 14% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7% |
| Unknown | 11 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 93% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
| Scientists | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 19 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 19 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 5 | 26% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 16% |
| Other | 2 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 5% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 16% |
| Unknown | 4 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 37% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 11% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 6 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 14 November 2023.
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#1,968,280
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#1,363
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#39,480
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#60
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So far Altmetric has tracked 29,134 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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