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Microbiology
Norway
2026

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Microbiology

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86
Citations
30975
World Ranking
828
National Ranking
2

Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
31115
World Ranking
14000
National Ranking
66

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Dominique A. Caugant is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with particular emphasis on Immunology and Microbiology. Within these broader fields, their work extensively covers subfields such as Microbiology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics are centered around bacterial infections and vaccines, pneumonia and respiratory infections, reproductive tract infections, streptococcal infections and treatments, respiratory viral infections, syphilis diagnosis and treatment, and influenza virus research studies.

Dominique A. Caugant has contributed to multiple publications, including recent papers such as:

  • Reduced In Vitro Susceptibility of Streptococcus pyogenes to β-Lactam Antibiotics Associated with Mutations in the pbp2x Gene Is Geographically Widespread (2020), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Meningococcal disease surveillance in the Asia-Pacific region (2020): The global meningococcal initiative (2020), Journal of Infection
  • Surveillance and control of meningococcal disease in the COVID-19 era: A Global Meningococcal Initiative review (2021), Journal of Infection
  • Molecular diagnostic assays for the detection of common bacterial meningitis pathogens: A narrative review (2021), EBioMedicine
  • Genomic epidemiology and population structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Norway, 2016-2017 (2020), Microbial Genomics

The frequent co-authors associated with Dominique A. Caugant include:

  • Ola Brynildsrud
  • Vegard Eldholm
  • Muhamed-Kheir Taha
  • Kristian Alfsnes
  • Ray Borrow

Dominique A. Caugant's work has been published most often in the following venues:

  • Journal of Infection
  • Microbial Genomics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Vaccine
  • EBioMedicine

Best Publications

  • Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Jane A. Bygraves;Edward Feil;Giovanna Morelli

  • Methods of multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for bacterial population genetics and systematics

    R. K. Selander;D. A. Caugant;H. Ochman;James M. Musser

  • Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, and Bacillus thuringiensis—One Species on the Basis of Genetic Evidence

    Erlendur Helgason;Ole Andreas Økstad;Dominique A. Caugant;Henning A. Johansen

  • NadA, a Novel Vaccine Candidate of Neisseria meningitidis

    Maurizio Comanducci;Stefania Bambini;Brunella Brunelli;Jeannette Adu-Bobie

  • Neisseria meningitidis: an overview of the carriage state.

    Siamak P. Yazdankhah;Dominique A. Caugant

  • Meningococcal carriage and disease--population biology and evolution.

    Dominique A. Caugant;Martin C.J. Maiden

  • Asymptomatic carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in a randomly sampled population

    D A Caugant;E A Høiby;P Magnus;O Scheel

  • Intercontinental spread of a genetically distinctive complex of clones of Neisseria meningitidis causing epidemic disease

    D A Caugant;L O Frøholm;K Bøvre;E Holten

  • GENETIC DIVERSITY AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE E. COLI POPULATION OF A HUMAN HOST

    Dominique A. Caugant;Bruce R. Levin;Robert K. Selander

  • Predicted strain coverage of a meningococcal multicomponent vaccine (4CMenB) in Europe: a qualitative and quantitative assessment

    Ulrich Vogel;Muhamed-Kheir Taha;Julio A Vazquez;Jamie Findlow

  • Population genetics and molecular epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis.

    Dominique A. Caugant

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Bacteria of the Bacillus cereus Group

    Erlendur Helgason;Nicolas J. Tourasse;Roger Meisal;Dominique A. Caugant;Dominique A. Caugant

  • Taxonomic relationships of the [Pasteurella] haemolytica complex as evaluated by DNA-DNA hybridizations and 16S rRNA sequencing with proposal of Mannheimia haemolytica gen. nov., comb. nov., Mannheimia granulomatis comb. nov., Mannheimia glucosida sp. nov., Mannheimia ruminalis sp. nov. and Mannheimia varigena sp. nov.

    Øystein Angen;Reinier Mutters;Dominique A. Caugant;John E. Olsen

  • Spread of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains of the Beijing Genotype in the Archangel Oblast, Russia

    Olga S. Toungoussova;Olga S. Toungoussova;Per Sandven;Andrey O. Mariandyshev;Nina I. Nizovtseva

  • Distribution of Serogroups and Genotypes among Disease-Associated and Carried Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway

    Siamak P. Yazdankhah;Paula Kriz;Georgina Tzanakaki;Jenny Kremastinou

  • Genotypic Diversity among Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis Strains.

    Cathrine Rein Carlson;Dominique A. Caugant;Anne-Brit Kolstø

  • Genetic structure of Neisseria meningitidis populations in relation to serogroup, serotype, and outer membrane protein pattern.

    D A Caugant;L F Mocca;C E Frasch;L O Frøholm

  • Evolutionary pathway to increased virulence and epidemic group A Streptococcus disease derived from 3,615 genome sequences.

    Waleed Nasser;Stephen B. Beres;Randall J. Olsen;Melissa A. Dean

  • Effect of a serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccine (PsA–TT) on serogroup A meningococcal meningitis and carriage in Chad: a community study

    D M Daugla;J P Gami;K Gamougam;N Naibei

  • Enzyme polymorphism and genetic population structure in Escherichia coli and Shigella.

    Howard Ochman;Thomas S. Whittam;Dominique A. Caugant;Robert K. Selander

  • Contamination pattern of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria spp. in a salmon slaughterhouse and smoked salmon processing plant.

    Liv Marit Rørvik;Dominique A. Caugant;Magne Yndestad

Frequent Co-Authors

Muhamed-Kheir Taha
Muhamed-Kheir Taha Université Paris Cité
Ernst Arne Høiby
Ernst Arne Høiby Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Martin C. J. Maiden
Martin C. J. Maiden University of Oxford
Ingar Olsen
Ingar Olsen University of Oslo
Ray Borrow
Ray Borrow Manchester Royal Infirmary
Arie van der Ende
Arie van der Ende University of Amsterdam
Robert K. Selander
Robert K. Selander University of Rochester
Mark Achtman
Mark Achtman University of Warwick
Abraham Aseffa
Abraham Aseffa Armauer Hansen Research Institute
Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Arnfinn Sundsfjord University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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