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How a new test is revolutionising what we know about viruses in our midst

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How a new test is revolutionising what we know about viruses in our midst
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The Conversation, August 2015
Abstract

We monitor mosquitoes to help predict and control virus outbreaks. And a new technique for collecting mosquito saliva from the field has made the process both more sensitive and inexpensive.

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Attention Score in Context

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 29 November 2017.
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#1,945,582
of 25,363,685 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#133,375
of 184,810 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,079
of 277,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#2,025
of 3,423 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,363,685 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 184,810 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 92.3. This one is in the 27th percentile – i.e., 27% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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