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Gunnar Kahlmeter

Gunnar Kahlmeter

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
72
Citations
41810
World Ranking
1704
National Ranking
31

Gunnar Kahlmeter 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 Gunnar Kahlmeter sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 223 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gunnar Kahlmeter 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 Gunnar Kahlmeter sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gunnar Kahlmeter is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including clinical biochemistry, molecular medicine, applied microbiology and biotechnology, infectious diseases, and pharmacology.

The main topics of Gunnar Kahlmeter's work focus significantly on bacterial identification and susceptibility testing, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, antibiotic use and resistance, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, as well as tuberculosis research and epidemiology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Position Statements on Polymyxin B and Colistin Clinical Breakpoints, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • How to interpret MICs of antifungal compounds according to the revised clinical breakpoints v. 10.0 European committee on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (EUCAST), 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Association Between Minimum Inhibitory Concentration, Beta-lactamase Genes and Mortality for Patients Treated With Piperacillin/Tazobactam or Meropenem From the MERINO Study, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (RAST) in blood cultures: validation in 55 European laboratories, 2020, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • How to: perform antifungal susceptibility testing of microconidia-forming dermatophytes following the new reference EUCAST method E.Def 11.0, exemplified by Trichophyton, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Gunnar Kahlmeter frequently publishes in the following journals:

  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Anaerobe

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christian G. Giske
  • Erika Matuschek
  • John Turnidge
  • Rafael Cantón
  • Evelina Tacconelli

Best Publications

  • Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance

    A-P Magiorakos;A Srinivasan;R B Carey;Y Carmeli

  • Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis.

    Evelina Tacconelli;Elena Carrara;Alessia Savoldi;Stephan Harbarth

  • The global threat of antimicrobial resistance: science for intervention

    Ignasi Roca;Murat Akova;F. Baquero;Jean Carlet

  • Development of the EUCAST disk diffusion antimicrobial susceptibility testing method and its implementation in routine microbiology laboratories

    E. Matuschek;D.F.J. Brown;G. Kahlmeter

  • ESCMID guidelines for the management of the infection control measures to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in hospitalized patients

    E. Tacconelli;M.A. Cataldo;S.J. Dancer;G. De Angelis

  • EUCAST expert rules in antimicrobial susceptibility testing

    R. Leclercq;R. Cantón;D.F.J. Brown;C.G. Giske

  • The role of whole genome sequencing in antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacteria : report from the EUCAST Subcommittee

    M J Ellington;O Ekelund;Frank Møller Aarestrup;R Canton

  • Statistical characterisation of bacterial wild-type MIC value distributions and the determination of epidemiological cut-off values

    J. Turnidge;G. Kahlmeter;G. Kronvall

  • European harmonization of MIC breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacteria

    Gunnar Kahlmeter;Derek F. J. Brown;Fred W. Goldstein;Alasdair P. MacGowan

  • Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Lactobacillus, Pediococcus and Lactococcus human isolates and cultures intended for probiotic or nutritional use

    Ingo Klare;Carola Konstabel;Guido Werner;Geert Huys

  • Aminoglycoside toxicity – a review of clinical studies published between 1975 and 1982

    Gunnar Kahlmeter;Jörgen I. Dahlager

  • MIC-based dose adjustment: facts and fables.

    Johan W Mouton;Anouk E Muller;Rafael Canton;Christian G Giske

  • Surveillance for control of antimicrobial resistance

    Evelina Tacconelli;Frangiscos Sifakis;Stephan Harbarth;Remco Schrijver

  • The role of pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics in setting clinical MIC breakpoints: the EUCAST approach

    J.W. Mouton;D.F.J. Brown;P. Apfalter;R. Cantón

  • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of colistin - evaluation of seven commercial MIC products against standard broth microdilution for Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter spp.

    Erika Matuschek;Jenny Åhman;Catherine Webster;Gunnar Kahlmeter

  • Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems

    Alex van Belkum;Till T. Bachmann;Gerd Lüdke;Jan Gorm Lisby

  • The ECO•SENS Project: a prospective, multinational, multicentre epidemiological survey of the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of urinary tract pathogens—interim report

    Gunnar Kahlmeter

  • Antimicrobial susceptibility of Escherichia coli from community-acquired urinary tract infections in Europe: the ECO·SENS study revisited.

    Gunnar Kahlmeter;Hanna Odén Poulsen

  • CHAPTER 9 – Laboratory control of antimicrobial therapy

    Gunnar Kahlmeter;Derek Brown

  • Biological costs and mechanisms of fosfomycin resistance in Escherichia coli.

    Annika I. Nilsson;Otto G. Berg;Olle Aspevall;Gunnar Kahlmeter

  • European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) Technical Notes on antimicrobial susceptibility testing

    G Kahlmeter;Dfj Brown;FW Goldstein;AP MacGowan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian G. Giske
Christian G. Giske Karolinska University Hospital
Alasdair P. MacGowan
Alasdair P. MacGowan North Bristol NHS Trust
Rafael Cantón
Rafael Cantón Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria
Johan W. Mouton
Johan W. Mouton Radboud University Medical Center
Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Arnfinn Sundsfjord University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
John D. Turnidge
John D. Turnidge University of Adelaide
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut
Jesús Rodríguez-Baño
Jesús Rodríguez-Baño University of Seville
Hajo Grundmann
Hajo Grundmann University of Freiburg
Derek J. Brown
Derek J. Brown Stobhill Hospital

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