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Diane Descamps

Diane Descamps

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
70
Citations
19919
World Ranking
1919
National Ranking
110

Diane Descamps 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 Diane Descamps sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 416 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Diane Descamps 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 Diane Descamps sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Diane Descamps is a researcher affiliated with Inserm in France, focusing primarily on medicine and immunology and microbiology. Their research contributions span across multiple subfields including infectious diseases, virology, epidemiology, applied microbiology and biotechnology, and oncology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics in the biomedical field. Notable areas of study include HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, HIV research and treatment, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, antibiotic use and resistance, viral-associated cancers and disorders, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Descamps has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses Formation
  • Journal of Infection
  • Virologie

Their collaboration network includes regular co-authorship with notable researchers such as Vincent Cálvez, Anne-Geneviève Marcelin, Charlotte Charpentier, Valentine Marie Ferré, and Laurence Morand-Joubert.

Key recent papers authored by or involving Diane Descamps include:

  • Viral suppression and HIV-1 drug resistance 1 year after pragmatic transitioning to dolutegravir first-line therapy in Malawi: a prospective cohort study, 2022, The Lancet HIV
  • Frequency of capsid substitutions associated with GS-6207 in vitro resistance in HIV-1 from antiretroviral-naive and -experienced patients, 2020, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Surging bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance during the first wave of COVID-19: a study in a large multihospital institution in the Paris region, 2021, International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Virological efficacy of switch to DTG plus 3TC in a retrospective observational cohort of suppressed HIV-1 patients with or without past M184V: the LAMRES study, 2022, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
  • New Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus variant in men who have sex with men associated with severe pathologies, 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2-Specific Antibody Responses in Coronavirus Disease Patients

    Nisreen M.A. Okba;Marcel A. Müller;Wentao Li;Chunyan Wang

  • Clinical and virological data of the first cases of COVID-19 in Europe: a case series.

    Francois-Xavier Lescure;Francois-Xavier Lescure;Lila Bouadma;Lila Bouadma;Duc Nguyen;Marion Parisey

  • Evidence of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus

    Eric D'Ortenzio;Sophie Matheron;Yazdan Yazdanpanah;Xavier de Lamballerie

  • Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs are present in ~ 4% of uninfected individuals over 70 years old and account for ~ 20% of COVID-19 deaths.

    Paul Bastard;Adrian Gervais;Adrian Gervais;Tom Le Voyer;Tom Le Voyer;Jérémie Rosain;Jérémie Rosain

  • Mechanisms of Virologic Failure in Previously Untreated HIV-Infected Patients From a Trial of Induction-Maintenance Therapy

    D Descamps;P Flandre;V Calvez;G Peytavin

  • Phenotypic or genotypic resistance testing for choosing antiretroviral therapy after treatment failure: a randomized trial.

    Jean-Luc Meynard;Muriel Vray;Laurence Morand-Joubert;Esther Race

  • Predictors of Virologic Failure and Resistance in HIV-Infected Patients Treated with Nevirapine- or Efavirenz-Based Antiretroviral Therapy

    Jean-Jacques Parienti;Véronique Massari;Diane Descamps;Astrid Vabret

  • High rate of virologic suppression with raltegravir plus etravirine and darunavir/ritonavir among treatment-experienced patients infected with multidrug-resistant HIV: results of the ANRS 139 TRIO Trial.

    Y. Yazdanpanah;C. Fagard;D. Descamps;A. M. Taburet

  • Geographic and temporal trends in the molecular epidemiology and genetic mechanisms of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance: an individual-patient- and sequence-level meta-analysis

    Soo Yon Rhee;Jose Luis Blanco;Michael R. Jordan;Jonathan Taylor

  • Human herpesvirus 6 infection associated with anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome and reactive haemophagocytic syndrome

    V Descamps;F Bouscarat;S Laglenne;E Aslangul

  • Susceptibility of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group O isolates to antiretroviral agents: in vitro phenotypic and genotypic analyses.

    D Descamps;G Collin;F Letourneur;C Apetrei

  • A comparison of four serological assays for detecting anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in human serum samples from different populations.

    Ludivine Grzelak;Ludivine Grzelak;Sarah Temmam;Cyril Planchais;Caroline Demeret

  • Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection is linked to MAIT cell activation and cytotoxicity.

    Héloïse Flament;Héloïse Flament;Matthieu Rouland;Lucie Beaudoin;Amine Toubal

  • Pharmacokinetics, safety and efficacy of a full dose sofosbuvir-based regimen given daily in hemodialysis patients with chronic hepatitis C.

    Aude Desnoyer;Dan Pospai;Minh Patrick Lê;Anne Gervais

  • Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant: What we know and what we don’t

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  • HIV-1 virological remission lasting more than 12 years after interruption of early antiretroviral therapy in a perinatally infected teenager enrolled in the French ANRS EPF-CO10 paediatric cohort: a case report

    Pierre Frange;Pierre Frange;Albert Faye;Véronique Avettand-Fenoël;Véronique Avettand-Fenoël;Erianna Bellaton

  • Transmission of HIV Drug Resistance and the Predicted Effect on Current First-line Regimens in Europe

    L. Marije Hofstra;Nicolas Sauvageot;Jan Albert;Jan Albert;Ivailo Alexiev

  • Gag Mutations Strongly Contribute to HIV-1 Resistance to Protease Inhibitors in Highly Drug-Experienced Patients besides Compensating for Fitness Loss

    Elisabeth Dam;Romina Quercia;Bärbel Glass;Diane Descamps

  • Changes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Populations after Treatment Interruption in Patients Failing Antiretroviral Therapy

    Allan J. Hance;Virginie Lemiale;Jacques Izopet;Denise Lecossier

  • The Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant has a higher viral load than the Beta and the historical variants in nasopharyngeal samples from newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients.

    Elisa Teyssou;Héloise Delagrèverie;Benoit Visseaux;Sidonie Lambert-Niclot

  • Switch to Unusual Amino Acids at Codon 215 of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Reverse Transcriptase Gene in Seroconvertors Infected with Zidovudine-Resistant Variants

    Sabine Yerly;Abdelrahim Rakik;Sabine Kinloch De Loes;Bernard Hirschel

Frequent Co-Authors

Françoise Brun-Vézinet
Françoise Brun-Vézinet Université Paris Cité
Gilles Peytavin
Gilles Peytavin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Sophie Matheron
Sophie Matheron Université Paris Cité
Geneviève Chêne
Geneviève Chêne University of Bordeaux
Anne-Geneviève Marcelin
Anne-Geneviève Marcelin Sorbonne University
Florence Damond
Florence Damond Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard
Jacques Izopet
Jacques Izopet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Bernard Masquelier
Bernard Masquelier University of Bordeaux
Vincent Calvez
Vincent Calvez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Constance Delaugerre
Constance Delaugerre Université Paris Cité

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