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D-Index
59
Citations
12760
World Ranking
3263
National Ranking
1289

Alfredo G. Torres publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfredo G. Torres sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 182 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Alfredo G. Torres D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfredo G. Torres sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alfredo G. Torres is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States and has conducted extensive research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their scholarly output includes work across several subfields, notably Epidemiology, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics covered in their publications focus predominantly on infectious diseases, with a strong emphasis on Burkholderia infections and melioidosis. Other prominent areas of study include Escherichia coli research, chemical looping and thermochemical processes, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, gut microbiota and health, Brucella diagnosis, epidemiology and treatment, as well as antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Frequent publication venues for Alfredo G. Torres include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Infection and Immunity
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • npj Vaccines
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Alfredo G. Torres are:

  • Nittaya Khakhum
  • Jacob L. Stockton
  • Itziar Chapartegui-González
  • Alexander J. Badten
  • Daniel Tapia

Among the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Alfredo G. Torres are:

  • "SARS-CoV-2: Evolution and Emergence of New Viral Variants," 2022, published in Viruses
  • "Hacking the host: exploitation of macrophage polarization by intracellular bacterial pathogens," 2020, published in Pathogens and Disease
  • "Readout of a quantum processor with high dynamic range Josephson parametric amplifiers," 2023, published in Applied Physics Letters
  • "Multicomponent gold nano-glycoconjugate as a highly immunogenic and protective platform against Burkholderia mallei," 2020, published in npj Vaccines
  • "Multicomponent Gold-Linked Glycoconjugate Vaccine Elicits Antigen-Specific Humoral and Mixed T H 1-T H 17 Immunity, Correlated with Increased Protection against Burkholderia pseudomallei," 2021, published in mBio

Best Publications

  • Bacteria–host communication: The language of hormones

    Vanessa Sperandio;Alfredo G. Torres;Alfredo G. Torres;Bruce Jarvis;James P. Nataro

  • Quorum sensing Escherichia coli regulators B and C (QseBC): a novel two‐component regulatory system involved in the regulation of flagella and motility by quorum sensing in E. coli

    Vanessa Sperandio;Alfredo G. Torres;James B. Kaper

  • Quorum Sensing Is a Global Regulatory Mechanism in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

    Vanessa Sperandio;Alfredo G. Torres;Jorge A. Girón;James B. Kaper

  • The flagella of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli mediate adherence to epithelial cells

    Jorge A. Girón;Alfredo G. Torres;Enrique Freer;James B. Kaper

  • TonB-dependent systems of uropathogenic Escherichia coli: aerobactin and heme transport and TonB are required for virulence in the mouse.

    Alfredo G. Torres;Peter Redford;Rodney A. Welch;Shelley M. Payne

  • Haem iron-transport system in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7.

    Alfredo G. Torres;Shelley M. Payne

  • Adherence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains to epithelial cells.

    Alfredo G. Torres;Xin Zhou;James B. Kaper

  • StcE, a metalloprotease secreted by Escherichia coli O157:H7, specifically cleaves C1 esterase inhibitor.

    Wyndham W. Lathem;Thomas E. Grys;Sarah E. Witowski;Alfredo G. Torres

  • Identification and Characterization of lpfABCC′DE, a Fimbrial Operon of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

    Alfredo G. Torres;Jorge A. Giron;Jorge A. Giron;Nicole T. Perna;Valerie Burland

  • Multiple Elements Controlling Adherence of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 to HeLa Cells

    Alfredo G. Torres;James B. Kaper

  • Glanders: off to the races with Burkholderia mallei

    Gregory C. Whitlock;D. Mark Estes;Alfredo G. Torres

  • Genome sequence of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli and comparative genomic analysis with other E. coli pathotypes

    John H.E. Nash;Andre Villegas;Andrew M. Kropinski;Renan Aguilar-Valenzuela

  • Escherichia coli isolated from a Crohn's disease patient adheres, invades, and induces inflammatory responses in polarized intestinal epithelial cells

    Tonyia Eaves-Pyles;Christopher A. Allen;Joanna Taormina;Alexander Swidsinski

  • Molecular mechanisms that mediate colonization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains.

    Mauricio J. Farfan;Alfredo G. Torres

  • Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: foe or innocent bystander?

    Jia Hu;Alfredo G. Torres

  • THE AEROBACTIN IRON TRANSPORT SYSTEM GENES IN SHIGELLA FLEXNERI ARE PRESENT WITHIN A PATHOGENICITY ISLAND

    Steven A. Vokes;Stephanie A. Reeves;Alfredo G. Torres;Shelley M. Payne

  • The two-component system QseEF and the membrane protein QseG link adrenergic and stress sensing to bacterial pathogenesis

    Nicola C. Reading;David A. Rasko;Alfredo G. Torres;Vanessa Sperandio

  • A novel two-component signaling system that activates transcription of an enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli effector involved in remodeling of host actin

    Nicola C. Reading;Alfredo G. Torres;Melissa M. Kendall;David T. Hughes

  • Structure of the Shigella dysenteriae haem transport locus and its phylogenetic distribution in enteric bacteria.

    Elizabeth E. Wyckoff;Donald Duncan;Alfredo G. Torres;Melody Mills;Melody Mills

  • Flagellin of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli stimulates interleukin-8 production in T84 cells

    Xin Zhou;Jorge A. Girón;Jorge A. Girón;Alfredo G. Torres;J. Adam Crawford

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. Kaper
James B. Kaper University of Maryland, Baltimore
Vanessa Sperandio
Vanessa Sperandio University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vsevolod L. Popov
Vsevolod L. Popov The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Richard W. Titball
Richard W. Titball University of Exeter
David A. Rasko
David A. Rasko University of Maryland, Baltimore
Shelley M. Payne
Shelley M. Payne The University of Texas at Austin
David H. Walker
David H. Walker The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Direk Limmathurotsakul
Direk Limmathurotsakul Mahidol University
James E. Samuel
James E. Samuel Texas A&M University
Matthew K. Waldor
Matthew K. Waldor Harvard Medical School

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