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Emerging trends in Lassa fever: redefining the role of immunoglobulin M and inflammation in diagnosing acute infection

Overview of attention for article published in Virology Journal, October 2011
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Title
Emerging trends in Lassa fever: redefining the role of immunoglobulin M and inflammation in diagnosing acute infection
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Virology Journal, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1743-422x-8-478
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Luis M Branco, Jessica N Grove, Matt L Boisen, Jeffrey G Shaffer, Augustine Goba, Mohammed Fullah, Mambu Momoh, Donald S Grant, Robert F Garry

Abstract

Lassa fever (LF) is a devastating hemorrhagic viral disease that is endemic to West Africa and responsible for thousands of human deaths each year. Analysis of humoral immune responses (IgM and IgG) by antibody-capture ELISA (Ab-capture ELISA) and Lassa virus (LASV) viremia by antigen-capture ELISA (Ag-capture ELISA) in suspected patients admitted to the Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) Lassa Fever Ward (LFW) in Sierra Leone over the past five years is reshaping our understanding of acute LF.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Nigeria 1 <1%
Unknown 105 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 21%
Researcher 19 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Postgraduate 8 8%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 16 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 29%
Immunology and Microbiology 14 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 26 25%
Attention Score in Context

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 November 2021.
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#5,680,963
of 22,655,397 outputs
Outputs from Virology Journal
#557
of 3,022 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,666
of 140,299 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Virology Journal
#13
of 72 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,655,397 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,022 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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