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D-Index
72
Citations
22644
World Ranking
1724
National Ranking
738

Cesar A. Arias 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 Cesar A. Arias sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 364 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cesar A. Arias 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 Cesar A. Arias sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Oswald Avery Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America

Overview

Cesar A. Arias is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Medicine, Epidemiology, Clinical Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Among their recent publications are:

  • ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics (2024) - Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Molecular and clinical epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in the USA (CRACKLE-2): a prospective cohort study (2020) - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Clinical outcomes and bacterial characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae complex among patients from different global regions (CRACKLE-2): a prospective, multicentre, cohort study (2021) - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Global epidemiology and clinical outcomes of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and associated carbapenemases (POP): a prospective cohort study (2023) - The Lancet Microbe
  • Resistance in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (2020) - Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • William R. Miller
  • Blake Hanson (62 publications)
  • Truc T. Tran (47 publications)
  • An Q Dinh (45 publications)
  • Jinnethe Reyes (37 publications)

The most common venues publishing their work are:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases (71 publications)
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (32 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (16 publications)
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases (12 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology (7 publications)

Arias has authored books published by Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira eBooks, including "RoberDTA/DTI: Arquitectura basada en transformers para la predicción de interacción fármaco-proteína objetivo" (2024), and a book with Universidad de Guadalajara eBooks titled "Literacidad crítica, formación e inclusión" (2022).

In recognition of their contributions, Arias received the Oswald Avery Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance

    Jose M. Munita;Cesar A. Arias

  • The rise of the Enterococcus : beyond vancomycin resistance

    Cesar A. Arias;Barbara E. Murray;Barbara E. Murray

  • Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs in the 21st Century — A Clinical Super-Challenge

    Cesar A Arias;Barbara E Murray

  • Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in enterococci.

    William R Miller;Jose M Munita;Cesar A Arias

  • Management of multidrug-resistant enterococcal infections.

    Cesar A. Arias;German A. Contreras;German A. Contreras;Barbara E. Murray

  • Genetic basis for in vivo daptomycin resistance in enterococci

    Cesar A. Arias;Cesar A. Arias;Diana Panesso;Diana Panesso;Danielle M. McGrath;Xiang Qin

  • Acquisition of a natural resistance gene renders a clinical strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus resistant to the synthetic antibiotic linezolid

    Seok Ming Toh;Liqun Xiong;Cesar A. Arias;Cesar A. Arias;Maria V. Villegas

  • Enterococcal Infection—Treatment and Antibiotic Resistance

    Christopher J. Kristich;Louis B. Rice;Cesar A. Arias

  • Emergence and management of drug-resistant enterococcal infections

    Cesar A Arias;Barbara E Murray

  • Large scale variation in Enterococcus faecalis illustrated by the genome analysis of strain OG1RF

    Agathe Bourgogne;Danielle A Garsin;Xiang Qin;Kavindra V Singh

  • Clinical outcomes and bacterial characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae complex among patients from different global regions (CRACKLE-2): a prospective, multicentre, cohort study.

    Minggui Wang;Michelle Earley;Liang Chen;Blake M Hanson

  • Molecular and clinical epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in the USA (CRACKLE-2): a prospective cohort study

    David van Duin;Cesar A Arias;Lauren Komarow;Liang Chen

  • Global epidemiology and clinical outcomes of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and associated carbapenemases (POP): a prospective cohort study

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  • Mechanisms of drug resistance: daptomycin resistance

    Truc T. Tran;Truc T. Tran;Jose M. Munita;Jose M. Munita;Jose M. Munita;Cesar A. Arias

  • Mechanism of Action and Resistance to Daptomycin in Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococci

    William R. Miller;Arnold S. Bayer;Arnold S. Bayer;Cesar A. Arias

  • Dissemination of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus USA300 sequence type 8 lineage in Latin America

    Jinnethe Reyes;Sandra Rincón;Lorena Diaz;Diana Panesso

  • A Review of Combination Antimicrobial Therapy for Enterococcus faecalis Bloodstream Infections and Infective Endocarditis

    Maya Beganovic;Maya Beganovic;Megan K Luther;Megan K Luther;Louis B Rice;Louis B Rice;Cesar A Arias;Cesar A Arias

  • Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19.

    Kimberly E Hanson;Angela M Caliendo;Cesar A Arias;Janet A Englund

  • Transferable Vancomycin Resistance in a Community-Associated MRSA Lineage

    Flávia Rossi;Lorena Diaz;Lorena Diaz;Aye Wollam;Diana Panesso;Diana Panesso

  • Transferable Plasmid-Mediated Resistance to Linezolid Due to cfr in a Human Clinical Isolate of Enterococcus faecalis

    Lorena Diaz;Pattarachai Kiratisin;Rodrigo E. Mendes;Diana Panesso;Diana Panesso

  • Daptomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis Diverts the Antibiotic Molecule from the Division Septum and Remodels Cell Membrane Phospholipids

    Truc T. Tran;Diana Panesso;Diana Panesso;Nagendra N. Mishra;Eugenia Mileykovskaya

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara E. Murray
Barbara E. Murray The University of Texas at Austin
Michael J. Rybak
Michael J. Rybak Wayne State University
Paul J. Planet
Paul J. Planet Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Arnold S. Bayer
Arnold S. Bayer University of California, Los Angeles
Patrick D. Schloss
Patrick D. Schloss University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Louis B. Rice
Louis B. Rice Brown University
Michael J. Sadowsky
Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota
Harold L. Drake
Harold L. Drake University of Bayreuth
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Susan T. Lovett
Susan T. Lovett Brandeis University

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