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Claudio Viscoli

Claudio Viscoli

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Microbiology

D-Index
91
Citations
39633
World Ranking
638
National Ranking
14

Medicine

D-Index
92
Citations
40645
World Ranking
11130
National Ranking
405

Overview

Claudio Viscoli was affiliated with the University of Genoa in Italy and contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spanned several subfields, including infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular medicine, pharmacology, and applied microbiology and biotechnology.

Their scientific work focused on topics related to antibiotic resistance in bacteria, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, antibiotic pharmacokinetics and efficacy, antibiotic use and resistance, antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus species, infections and bacterial resistance, and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment.

Viscoli authored multiple papers covering a range of issues within infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Notable recent papers included:

  • Pneumocystis jiroveciiDisease: Basis for the Revised EORTC/MSGERC Invasive Fungal Disease Definitions in Individuals Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Changing epidemiology of candidaemia: Increase in fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis, 2020, Mycoses
  • Ceftolozane/Tazobactam for Treatment of Severe ESBL-Producing Enterobacterales Infections: A Multicenter Nationwide Clinical Experience (CEFTABUSE II Study), 2020, Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Changes in the relative prevalence of candidaemia due to non-albicans Candida species in adult in-patients: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression, 2020, Mycoses
  • Risk factors for infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales: an international matched case-control-control study (EURECA), 2023, EClinicalMedicine

Their frequent coauthors included Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Matteo Bassetti, Pierluigi Viale, Anna Marchese, and Maddalena Giannella, indicating collaboration within a focused network of infectious disease and microbiology experts.

Viscoli published frequently in venues such as Mycoses, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, EClinicalMedicine, and Clinical Microbiology and Infection, reflecting their contributions to clinical and microbiological research communities.

Best Publications

  • Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group

    Ben De Pauw;Thomas J. Walsh;J. Peter Donnelly;David A. Stevens

  • Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    J. Peter Donnelly;Sharon C. Chen;Carol A. Kauffman;William J. Steinbach

  • Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline

    A. J. Ullmann;J. M. Aguado;S. Arikan-Akdagli;D. W. Denning

  • ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: non-neutropenic adult patients.

    O.A. Cornely;M. Bassetti;T. Calandra;J. Garbino

  • International Consensus Guidelines for the Optimal Use of the Polymyxins: Endorsed by the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), International Society for Anti-infective Pharmacology (ISAP), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP).

    Brian T. Tsuji;Jason M. Pogue;Alexandre P. Zavascki;Mical Paul;Mical Paul

  • Predictors of mortality in bloodstream infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae: importance of combination therapy

    Mario Tumbarello;Pierluigi Viale;Claudio Viscoli;Enrico Maria Trecarichi

  • Candidemia in Cancer Patients: A Prospective, Multicenter Surveillance Study by the Invasive Fungal Infection Group (IFIG) of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)

    C. Viscoli;C. Girmenia;A. Marinus;L. Collette

  • ECIL-6 guidelines for the treatment of invasive candidiasis, aspergillosis and mucormycosis in leukemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients

    Frederic Tissot;Samir G. Agrawal;Livio Pagano;Georgios Petrikkos

  • European guidelines for empirical antibacterial therapy for febrile neutropenic patients in the era of growing resistance: summary of the 2011 4th European Conference on Infections in Leukemia.

    Diana Averbuch;Christina Orasch;Catherine Cordonnier;David M. Livermore

  • Voriconazole versus a regimen of amphotericin B followed by fluconazole for candidaemia in non-neutropenic patients: a randomised non-inferiority trial

    B J Kullberg;J D Sobel;M Ruhnke;P G Pappas

  • Infections caused by KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae: differences in therapy and mortality in a multicentre study

    Mario Tumbarello;Enrico Maria Trecarichi;Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa;Maddalena Giannella

  • Defining Responses to Therapy and Study Outcomes in Clinical Trials of Invasive Fungal Diseases: Mycoses Study Group and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Consensus Criteria

    Brahm H. Segal;Raoul Herbrecht;David A. Stevens;David A. Stevens;Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner

  • Colistin and Rifampicin Compared With Colistin Alone for the Treatment of Serious Infections Due to Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial

    Emanuele Durante-Mangoni;Giuseppe Signoriello;Roberto Andini;Annunziata Mattei

  • ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012:diagnostic procedures

    M. Cuenca-Estrella;P. E Verweij;M. C Arendrup;S. Arikan-Akdagli

  • Epidemiological trends in nosocomial candidemia in intensive care.

    Matteo Bassetti;Elda Righi;Alessandro Nanni Costa;Roberta Fasce

  • ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: prevention and management of invasive infections in neonates and children caused by Candida spp

    W.W. Hope;E. Castagnola;A.H. Groll;E. Roilides

  • ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: adults with haematological malignancies and after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT)

    A.J. Ullmann;M. Akova;R. Herbrecht;C. Viscoli

  • The use of mannan antigen and anti-mannan antibodies in the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis: recommendations from the Third European Conference on Infections in Leukemia.

    Malgorzata Karolina Mikulska;Thierry Calandra;Maurizio Sanguinetti;Daniel Poulain

  • A comparison of outcome from febrile neutropenic episodes in children compared with adults: Results from four EORTC studies

    Ian Hann;Claudio Viscoli;Marianne Paesmans;Harold Gaya

  • International Conference for the Development of a Consensus on the Management and Prevention of Severe Candidal Infections.

    J E Jr Edwards;G. P. Bodey;R. A. Bowden;T. Buchner

Frequent Co-Authors

Matteo Bassetti
Matteo Bassetti University of Genoa
Giancarlo Icardi
Giancarlo Icardi University of Genoa
Pierluigi Viale
Pierluigi Viale University of Bologna
Mario Tumbarello
Mario Tumbarello Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Elda Righi
Elda Righi University of Verona
Anna Marchese
Anna Marchese University of Genoa
Mauro Giacomini
Mauro Giacomini McMaster University
Raoul Herbrecht
Raoul Herbrecht University of Strasbourg
Roberto Cauda
Roberto Cauda Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Maurizio Sanguinetti
Maurizio Sanguinetti Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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