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Microbiology

D-Index
106
Citations
50381
World Ranking
293
National Ranking
11

Medicine

D-Index
106
Citations
50712
World Ranking
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National Ranking
187

François Vandenesch 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 François Vandenesch sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 479 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.

François Vandenesch 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 François Vandenesch sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 106 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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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