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Sexual transmission of Lyme disease: challenging the tickborne disease paradigm

Overview of attention for article published in Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, August 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 1,261)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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4 news outlets
twitter
29 tweeters
facebook
14 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
video
1 video uploader

Citations

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17 Dimensions

Readers on

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49 Mendeley
Title
Sexual transmission of Lyme disease: challenging the tickborne disease paradigm
Published in
Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, August 2015
DOI 10.1586/14787210.2015.1081056
Pubmed ID
Authors

Raphael B Stricker, Marianne J Middelveen

Abstract

Lyme disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has become a major worldwide epidemic. In this article, we explore the clinical, epidemiological and experimental evidence for sexual transmission of Lyme disease in animal models and humans. Although the likelihood of sexual transmission of the Lyme spirochete remains speculative, the possibility of Lyme disease transmission via intimate human contact merits further study.

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 48 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 18%
Student > Master 9 18%
Other 6 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 12%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 6 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 8 16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 28 September 2022.
All research outputs
#813,474
of 23,426,104 outputs
Outputs from Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy
#27
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,657
of 268,867 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy
#1
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,426,104 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,261 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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