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Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges

Overview of attention for article published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, March 2016
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3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
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193 X users
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14 patents
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6 Facebook pages
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9 Wikipedia pages
reddit
2 Redditors

Citations

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518 Mendeley
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2 CiteULike
Title
Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges
Published in
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, March 2016
DOI 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004530
Pubmed ID
Authors

Robert W. Malone, Jane Homan, Michael V. Callahan, Jill Glasspool-Malone, Lambodhar Damodaran, Adriano De Bernardi Schneider, Rebecca Zimler, James Talton, Ronald R. Cobb, Ivan Ruzic, Julie Smith-Gagen, Daniel Janies, James Wilson, Zika Response Working Group

Abstract

Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions is a rapidly developing neuropathic, teratogenic, emerging infectious public health threat. There are no licensed medical countermeasures (vaccines, therapies or preventive drugs) available for Zika virus infection and disease. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) predicts that Zika virus will continue to spread and eventually reach all countries and territories in the Americas with endemic Aedes mosquitoes. This paper reviews the status of the Zika virus outbreak, including medical countermeasure options, with a focus on how the epidemiology, insect vectors, neuropathology, virology and immunology inform options and strategies available for medical countermeasure development and deployment. Multiple information sources were employed to support the review. These included publically available literature, patents, official communications, English and Lusophone lay press. Online surveys were distributed to physicians in the US, Mexico and Argentina and responses analyzed. Computational epitope analysis as well as infectious disease outbreak modeling and forecasting were implemented. Field observations in Brazil were compiled and interviews conducted with public health officials.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 5 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 501 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 111 21%
Student > Bachelor 95 18%
Researcher 66 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 33 6%
Other 103 20%
Unknown 62 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 109 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 88 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 66 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 29 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 26 5%
Other 116 22%
Unknown 84 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 168. 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 09 January 2024.
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#244,074
of 25,589,756 outputs
Outputs from PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
#112
of 9,430 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,302
of 313,326 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
#7
of 232 outputs
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