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Eleftherios Mylonakis

Eleftherios Mylonakis

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
103
Citations
35911
World Ranking
353
National Ranking
163

Medicine

D-Index
103
Citations
36922
World Ranking
7400
National Ranking
3869

Eleftherios Mylonakis 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 Eleftherios Mylonakis sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 466 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eleftherios Mylonakis 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 Eleftherios Mylonakis sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2010 - Oswald Avery Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Eleftherios Mylonakis is affiliated with Houston Methodist in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a particular focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Microbiology.

Their research spans various important topics, including:

  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Antifungal Resistance and Susceptibility
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Biofilms and Quorum Sensing

Mylonakis has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Association of Obesity with Disease Severity Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019," 2020, Obesity
  • "Biofilm and Quorum sensing mediated pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa," 2020, Process Biochemistry
  • "Prevalence of Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD, MetALD, and ALD) in the United States: NHANES 2017-2020," 2023, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • "Emerging Technologies for Use in the Study, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19," 2020, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • "Rezafungin versus caspofungin for treatment of candidaemia and invasive candidiasis (ReSTORE): a multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised phase 3 trial," 2022, The Lancet

They have also contributed to book publications, including "Candida Biofilms," published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Mylonakis has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Fadi Shehadeh
  • Markos Kalligeros
  • Evangelia K. Mylona
  • Stephanos P. Vassilopoulos
  • Gregorio Benitez

Their research output is frequently published in venues such as:

  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Medicine
  • Antibiotics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Eleftherios Mylonakis has been recognized with awards including the Oswald Avery Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2010 and is a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Infective endocarditis in adults.

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Stephen B. Calderwood

  • Google Trends: A Web-Based Tool for Real-Time Surveillance of Disease Outbreaks

    Herman Anthony Carneiro;Herman Anthony Carneiro;Eleftherios Mylonakis

  • A simple model host for identifying Gram-positive virulence factors

    Danielle A. Garsin;Costi D. Sifri;Eleftherios Mylonakis;Xiang Qin

  • Medically important bacterial–fungal interactions

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Deborah A Hogan;Eleftherios Mylonakis

  • Central nervous system infection with Listeria monocytogenes : 33 years' experience at a general hospital and review of 776 episodes from the literature

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Elizabeth L. Hohmann;Stephen B. Calderwood

  • The Effect of Molecular Rapid Diagnostic Testing on Clinical Outcomes in Bloodstream Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Tristan T. Timbrook;Tristan T. Timbrook;Jacob B. Morton;Jacob B. Morton;Kevin W. McConeghy;Aisling R. Caffrey;Aisling R. Caffrey

  • Fecal Colonization With Extended-spectrum Beta-lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Risk Factors Among Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis.

    Styliani Karanika;Theodoros Karantanos;Marios Arvanitis;Christos Grigoras

  • Galleria mellonella as a Model System To Study Cryptococcus neoformans Pathogenesis

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Roberto Moreno;Joseph B. El Khoury;Alexander Idnurm

  • Clostridium difficile--Associated diarrhea: A review.

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Edward T. Ryan;Stephen B. Calderwood

  • Harnessing Hsp90 function as a powerful, broadly effective therapeutic strategy for fungal infectious disease

    Leah E. Cowen;Sheena D. Singh;Julia R. Köhler;Cathy Collins

  • T2 Magnetic Resonance Assay for the Rapid Diagnosis of Candidemia in Whole Blood: A Clinical Trial

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Cornelius J. Clancy;Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner;Kevin W. Garey

  • Listeriosis during pregnancy: a case series and review of 222 cases.

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Maria Paliou;Elizabeth L Hohmann;Stephen B Calderwood

  • Association of Obesity with Disease Severity Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019.

    Markos Kalligeros;Fadi Shehadeh;Evangelia K. Mylona;Gregorio Benitez

  • Antifungal chemical compounds identified using a C. elegans pathogenicity assay.

    Julia Breger;Beth Burgwyn Fuchs;George Aperis;Terence I Moy

  • A nuclear receptor-like pathway regulating multidrug resistance in fungi

    Jitendra K. Thakur;Haribabu Arthanari;Fajun Yang;Shih Jung Pan

  • Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans by Cryptococcus neoformans as a model of yeast pathogenesis

    Eleftherios Mylonakis;Frederick M. Ausubel;John R. Perfect;Joseph Heitman

  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Clinical and Economic Outcomes from the Implementation of Hospital-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

    Styliani Karanika;Suresh Paudel;Christos Grigoras;Alireza Kalbasi

  • A new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics effective against bacterial persisters

    Wooseong Kim;Wenpeng Zhu;Gabriel Lambert Hendricks;Daria Van Tyne

  • Galleria mellonella as a model system to study Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis and therapeutics.

    Anton Yariv Peleg;Sebastian Jara;Divya Monga;George M Eliopoulos;George M Eliopoulos

  • Molecular and Nonmolecular Diagnostic Methods for Invasive Fungal Infections

    Marios Arvanitis;Theodora Anagnostou;Beth Burgwyn Fuchs;Angela M. Caliendo

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Stephen B. Calderwood
Stephen B. Calderwood Massachusetts General Hospital
Michael R. Hamblin
Michael R. Hamblin University of Johannesburg
Juliana Campos Junqueira
Juliana Campos Junqueira Sao Paulo State University
Timothy P. Flanigan
Timothy P. Flanigan Brown University
Anton Y. Peleg
Anton Y. Peleg Monash University
George P. Tegos
George P. Tegos University of New Mexico
Michael S. Gilmore
Michael S. Gilmore Harvard Medical School
George M. Eliopoulos
George M. Eliopoulos Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Joseph Heitman
Joseph Heitman Duke University

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