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Overview

François Vandenesch is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work extensively covers various subfields, including:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Key research topics addressed by François Vandenesch include:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments

The scientist has published papers in prominent venues with repeated contributions in several journals, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "The 2023 Duke-International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Criteria for Infective Endocarditis: Updating the Modified Duke Criteria" (2023), Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Polyclonal expansion of TCR Vβ 21.3 + CD4 + and CD8 + T cells is a hallmark of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children" (2021), Science Immunology
  • "Multicenter evaluation of a syndromic rapid multiplex PCR test for early adaptation of antimicrobial therapy in adult patients with pneumonia" (2020), Critical Care
  • "Multicentric evaluation of BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel for rapid bacteriological documentation of pneumonia" (2020), Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • "How Bacterial Adaptation to Cystic Fibrosis Environment Shapes Interactions Between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus" (2021), Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Frédéric Laurent
  • Karen Moreau
  • Anne Tristan
  • Céline Dupieux
  • Olivier Dauwalder

Best Publications

  • Involvement of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin—Producing Staphylococcus aureus in Primary Skin Infections and Pneumonia

    Gerard Lina;Yves Piémont;Florence Godail-Gamot;Michèle Bes

  • COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CARRYING PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN GENES: WORLDWIDE EMERGENCE

    François Vandenesch;Timothy Naimi;Mark C. Enright;Gerard Lina

  • Comparison of community- and health care-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.

    Timothy S. Naimi;Kathleen H. LeDell;Kathryn Como-Sabetti;Stephanie M. Borchardt

  • Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotising pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients

    Yves Gillet;Bertrand Issartel;Philippe Vanhems;Jean-Christophe Fournet

  • Relationships between Staphylococcus aureus genetic background, virulence factors, agr groups (alleles), and human disease

    Sophie Jarraud;Christophe Mougel;Jean Thioulouse;Gerard Lina

  • Changing profile of infective endocarditis: results of a 1-year survey in France.

    Bruno Hoen;François Alla;Christine Selton-Suty;Isabelle Béguinot

  • Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Causes Necrotizing Pneumonia

    Maria Labandeira-Rey;Florence Couzon;Sandrine Boisset;Eric L. Brown

  • Preeminence of Staphylococcus aureus in Infective Endocarditis: A 1-Year Population-Based Survey

    Christine Selton-Suty;Marie Célard;Vincent Le Moing;Thanh Doco-Lecompte

  • Evidence in the Legionella pneumophila genome for exploitation of host cell functions and high genome plasticity.

    Christel Cazalet;Christophe Rusniok;Holger Brüggemann;Nora Zidane

  • Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in France: emergence of a single clone that produces Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

    Philippe Dufour;Yves Gillet;Michèle Bes;Gerard Lina

  • The 2023 Duke-ISCVID Criteria for Infective Endocarditis: Updating the Modified Duke Criteria.

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  • Distribution of Genes Encoding Resistance to Macrolides, Lincosamides, and Streptogramins among Staphylococci

    Gerard Lina;Alain Quaglia;Marie-Elisabeth Reverdy;Roland Leclercq

  • egc, A Highly Prevalent Operon of Enterotoxin Gene, Forms a Putative Nursery of Superantigens in Staphylococcus aureus

    Sophie Jarraud;Marie Alix Peyrat;Annick Lim;Anne Tristan

  • THE AGR P2 OPERON : AN AUTOCATALYTIC SENSORY TRANSDUCTION SYSTEM IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

    R. P. Novick;S. J. Projan;J. Kornblum;H. F. Ross

  • Clinical features and prognostic factors of listeriosis: the MONALISA national prospective cohort study.

    Caroline Charlier;Élodie Perrodeau;Alexandre Leclercq;Alexandre Leclercq;Benoît Cazenave

  • Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII coordinately represses the synthesis of virulence factors and the transcription regulator Rot by an antisense mechanism

    Sandrine Boisset;Thomas Geissmann;Eric Huntzinger;Pierre Fechter

  • Cultivation of the Bacillus of Whipple's Disease

    Didier Raoult;Marie L. Birg;Bernard La Scola;Pierre E. Fournier

  • Global distribution of Panton-Valentine leukocidin--positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 2006.

    Anne Tristan;Michele Bes;Helene Meugnier;Gerard Lina

  • Bacterial competition for human nasal cavity colonization: role of Staphylococcal agr alleles.

    Gerard Lina;Florent Boutite;Anne Tristan;Michèle Bes

  • Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin directly targets mitochondria and induces Bax-independent apoptosis of human neutrophils

    Anne-Laure Genestier;Marie-Cécile Michallet;Gilles Prévost;Gregory Bellot

  • Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII coordinately represses the synthesis of virulence factors and the transcription regulator Rot by an antisense mechanism

    Pascale Romby;Thomas Geissmann;Sandrine Boisset;Eric Huntzinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome Etienne
Jerome Etienne Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Gerard Lina
Gerard Lina Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michèle Bes
Michèle Bes Hospices Civils de Lyon
Frédéric Laurent
Frédéric Laurent Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Sophie Jarraud
Sophie Jarraud Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
François Alla
François Alla University of Bordeaux
Jean-Philippe Lavigne
Jean-Philippe Lavigne University of Montpellier
Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University
Philippe Glaser
Philippe Glaser Institut Pasteur

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