Global Trends in Studies on the Presence of Demodex spp in Patients Diagnosed with Blepharitis
,
Abstract
Background: The main objective of this study is to review publications on the presence of Demodex spp. in patients diagnosed with blepharitis worldwide and to analyse the trends and groups in this field.
Methods: This bibliometric study was conducted to detect the presence of Demodex spp in patients diagnosed with blepharitis worldwide between 1984 and 2023. For this purpose, 288 studies were examined as a result of searches using the keywords "Blepharitis and Demodex" in Web of Science (WOS) databases. All text data was analysed using VOSviewer software to ensure accuracy and reliability. In this study, analysis using text mining and data visualization techniques (bubble maps and graphs) helped to make the results more understandable.
Results: This study provided information on 288 articles from WOS databases. The average total number of citations is 1305 and the H-index is 41. The majority of articles (63%) were published in the field of ophthalmology. The countries that published the most articles on this topic were the USA (24%), China (13%), and Turkey (11%).
Conclusion: This study is the first bibliometric study of patients diagnosed with blepharitis due to Demodex spp. The most used keyword in blepharitis is Demodex. The most studied field of research is ophthalmology and the most studied country is the United States of America. The results of this bibliometric analysis conducted by us reveal global trends in the presence of Demodex spp in patients diagnosed with blepharitis and provide important information for future directions of research.
2. Flores V, Ruf M, Farfan SPA, Echávez AVS, Bastard DP, Puga MC, Mazzuoc¬colo LD (2023) Prevalence of Demodex spp in patients with chronic Blepharitis. Rev Arg Mi¬crobiol. 56(1): 74–78.
3. Mongi F, Laconte L, Casero RD (2018) Áca¬ros del género Demodex parásitos co¬loni¬zadores de personas sanas o aso-cia¬dos a patología ocular?. Rev Arg Mi-crobiol. 50(4): 369–373.
4. Zhang AC, Muntz A, Wang MT, Craig JP, Downie LE (2020) Ocular Demodex: a systematic review of the clinical litera-ture. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 40(4): 389–432.
5. Lacey N, Kavanagh K, Tseng SC (2009) Un¬der the lash: Demodex mites in hu-man diseases. Biochem. 31(4): 20–24.
6. Aycan ÖM (2008) Demodex folliculorum ve D. brevis Enfestasyonlarını Etkileyen Fa¬ktörler [PhD dissertation] İnönü Üni-ver¬sitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü Tür-kiye.
7. Yazısız H, Çekin Y, Koçlar FG (2019) Yüzünde dermatolojik semptomları olan hastalarda Demodex akarlarının varlığı. Türkiye Parazitol Dergisi. 43(3): 143–148.
8. Galvis-Ramírez V, Tello-Hernández A, Ál-varez-Osorio L, Rey-Serrano JJ (2011) Prevalencia de infección por Demodex folliculorum en pacientes que acuden a consulta general de ophthalmología. Rev Salud Pública. 13(6): 990–997.
9. Forton FM, De Maertelaer V (2021) Which factors influence Demodex prolifera¬tion? A retrospective pilot study high¬lighting a possible role of subtle im¬mune var-iations and sebaceous gland status. J Der¬matol. 48(8): 1210–1220.
10. Zhao Y, Guo N, Xun M, Xu J, Wang M, Wang D (2011) Sociodemographic char-acteristics and risk factor analysis of De-modex infestation (Acari: Demodicidae). J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 12: 998–1007.
11. Hosseini K, Bourque LB, Hays RD (2018) Development and evaluation of a meas-ure of patient-reported symptoms of Bleph¬aritis. Health Qual Life Out¬comes. 16(1): 1–6.
12. Chudzicka-Strugała I, Gołębiewska I, Bru¬decki G, Elamin W, Zwoździak B (2023) Demodicosis in different age groups and alternative treatment op-tions-A review. J Clin Med. 12(4): 1649.
13. Van Eck N, Waltman L (2010) Software sur¬vey: VOSviewer, a computer pro¬gram for bibliometric mapping. Scien¬tomet-rics. 84(2): 523–538.
14. Zeytun E, Karakurt Y (2019) Prevalence and burden of Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis (Acari: Demodici-dae) in patients with chronic Blepharitis in the province of Erzincan, Turkey. J Med En¬tomol. 56(1): 2–9.
16. Pflugfelder SC, Karpecki PM, Perez VL (2014) Treatment of Blepharitis: recent clinical trials. Ocul Surf. 12(4): 273–284.
17. Cheng AM, Sheha H, Tseng SC (2015) Re¬cent advances on ocular Demodex in-fes¬tation. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 26(4): 295–300.
18. Luo X, Li J, Chen C, Tseng S, Liang L (2017) Ocular demodicosis as a poten¬tial cause of ocular surface inflamma¬tion. Cornea. 36 (Suppl 1) S9–S14.
19. Lacey N, Kavanagh K, Tseng SC (2009) Under the lash: Demodex mites in hu-man diseases. Biochem. 31(4): 20–24.
20. Mor N (2019) The investigation of preva-lence of Demodex spp. in University stu-dents: the case of the faculty of health sciences. Türkiye Parazitol Derg. 43(4): 198–203.
21. Küçük U, Alkan S, Uya C (2021) Bibli¬o-metric analysis on infective endocardi¬tis. Iberoamerican Journal of Medicine. 3(4): 350–355.
22. Tantengco OAG, Rojo RD (2022) Biblio-metric analysis of schistosomiasis re-search in Southeast Asia (1908-2020). Acta trop¬ica. 228: 106322.
22. Lemp MA, Nichols KK (2009) Blepharitis in the United States 2009: a survey-based perspective on prevalence and treatment. Ocul Surf. 7(2): S1–S14.
23. Dindar Demiray E, Oğuz Mızrakçı S, Al-kan S (2021) Analysis of publications on Acinetobacter: A Scopus database search study. J Clin Med Kaz. 18(5): 44–48.
24. Yıldız E (2022) Türkiye’de gebelik ve anestezi konulu yayınların bibliyometrik analizi. B S J Health Sci. 5(1): 50–55.
25. Durgun C (2021) Canlı donörden kara-ciğer nakli konusundaki global yayın trendleri ve Türkiye kaynaklı yayınların analizi. J Biotechnol Strateg Health Res. 5(3): 214–220.
26. Maciver SK, Piñero JE, Lorenzo-Morales J (2020) Is Naegleria fowleri an emerg¬ing parasite? Trends Parasitol. 36(1): 19–28.
| Files | ||
| Issue | Articles In Press | |
| Section | Original Article | |
| Keywords | ||
| Blepharitis; Demodex; Bibliometric analysis | ||
| Rights and permissions | |
|
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
