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Frédéric Laurent is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research focuses extensively on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, surgery, molecular biology, epidemiology, and clinical biochemistry.

Their scholarly work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Laurent has contributed frequently to journals such as the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Frontiers in Medicine, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, and the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study, 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics, 2022, Nature
  • Two-step strategy for the identification of SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/01 and other variants with spike deletion H69-V70, France, August to December 2020, 2021, Eurosurveillance
  • Personalized bacteriophage therapy to treat pandrug-resistant spinal Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Phage Therapy as Adjuvant to Conservative Surgery and Antibiotics to Salvage Patients With Relapsing S. aureus Prosthetic Knee Infection, 2020, Frontiers in Medicine

Laurent frequently collaborates with other researchers. Coauthors with whom they have published extensively include Tristan Ferry, Jérôme Josse, Camille Kolenda, Sébastien Lustıg, and Céline Dupieux.

Best Publications

  • A field guide to pandemic, epidemic and sporadic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Stefan Monecke;Geoffrey Coombs;Anna C. Shore;David C. Coleman

  • Staphylococcus aureus CC398: Host Adaptation and Emergence of Methicillin Resistance in Livestock

    Lance B. Price;Marc Stegger;Henrik Hasman;Maliha Aziz

  • Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) : guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements.

    T. Ito;K. Hiramatsu;D. Oliviera;H. de Lencastre

  • Overview of molecular typing methods for outbreak detection and epidemiological surveillance

    Sabat Aj;Budimir A;Nashev D;Sá-Leão R

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

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

  • Rapid detection, differentiation and typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus harbouring either mecA or the new mecA homologue mecALGA251

    M. Stegger;P.S. Andersen;A. Kearns;B. Pichon

  • Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics

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  • Global spread of three multidrug-resistant lineages of Staphylococcus epidermidis

    Jean J.Y.H. Lee;Ian I.R. Monk;Anders Gonçalves da Silva;Torsten Seemann

  • Staphylococcal Adhesion and Host Cell Invasion: Fibronectin-Binding and Other Mechanisms.

    Jérôme Josse;Frédéric Laurent;Alan Diot

  • Not Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)! A Clinician's Guide to Community MRSA - Its Evolving Antimicrobial Resistance and Implications for Therapy

    Kyra Chua;Frederic Laurent;Geoffrey Coombs;M Lindsay Lindsay Grayson

  • Guidelines for Reporting Novel mecA Gene Homologues

    Teruyo Ito;Keiichi Hiramatsu;Alexander Tomasz;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Global Distribution and Evolution of Panton- Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, 1981–2007

    Jean-Philippe Rasigade;Frederic Laurent;Gerard Lina;Helene Meugnier

  • Use of PCR-Restriction Enzyme Pattern Analysis and Sequencing Database for hsp65 Gene-Based Identification of Nocardia Species

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  • Origin, evolution, and global transmission of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus ST8

    Lena Strauß;Marc Stegger;Patrick Eberechi Akpaka;Abraham Alabi

  • Epidemiology of Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones Collected in France in 2006 and 2007

    Olivier Dauwalder;Olivier Dauwalder;Gérard Lina;Gérard Lina;Géraldine Durand;Géraldine Durand;Michèle Bes;Michèle Bes

  • Epidemiology of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus lineages in five major African towns: high prevalence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes.

    S. Breurec;C. Fall;R. Pouillot;P. Boisier

  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus capitis with Reduced Vancomycin Susceptibility Causes Late-Onset Sepsis in Intensive Care Neonates

    Jean-Philippe Rasigade;Jean-Philippe Rasigade;Olivia Raulin;Jean-Charles Picaud;Charlotte Tellini

  • Prospective Nationwide Study of Aeromonas Infections in France

    Brigitte Lamy;Angeli Kodjo;Frédéric Laurent

  • Development of a real-time quadruplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of nuc, Panton–Valentine leucocidin (PVL), mecA and homologue mecALGA251

    Bruno Pichon;Robert Hill;Frederic Laurent;Anders Rhod Larsen

  • MRSA harboring mecA variant gene mecC, France.

    Frederic Laurent;Hubert Chardon;Marisa Haenni;Michele Bes

  • Fitness and competitive growth advantage of new gentamicin-susceptible MRSA clones spreading in French hospitals

    Frédéric Laurent;Hervé Lelièvre;Marie Cornu;François Vandenesch

  • Screening of the H69 and V70 deletions in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with a RT-PCR diagnosis assay reveals low prevalence in Lyon, France

    Antonin Bal;Gregory Destras;Alexandre Gaymard;Julien Marlet

Frequent Co-Authors

François Vandenesch
François Vandenesch Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michèle Bes
Michèle Bes Hospices Civils de Lyon
Jerome Etienne
Jerome Etienne Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Gerard Lina
Gerard Lina Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut
Anders Rhod Larsen
Anders Rhod Larsen Statens Serum Institut
Marc Stegger
Marc Stegger Statens Serum Institut
Henrik Westh
Henrik Westh University of Copenhagen
Paal Skytt Andersen
Paal Skytt Andersen Statens Serum Institut
Marisa Haenni
Marisa Haenni University of Lyon System

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