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D-Index
71
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25689
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1809
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772

Herbert P. Schweizer 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 Herbert P. Schweizer sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 222 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.

Herbert P. Schweizer 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 Herbert P. Schweizer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Herbert P. Schweizer is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research spans medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on epidemiology and molecular biology subfields.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including:

  • Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
  • Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, and ectoparasites research
  • Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology
  • Antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • David M. Wagner
  • Jason W. Sahl
  • Carina M. Hall
  • Nawarat Somprasong
  • Paul Keim

They have published in several prominent scientific journals. The most frequent venues include:

  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (4 publications)
  • mBio (2 publications)
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Nature Communications

Recent publications illustrate the focus and scope of their research. These include:

  • Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistant Yersinia pestis During a Pneumonic Plague Outbreak, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Loss of RND-Type Multidrug Efflux Pumps Triggers Iron Starvation and Lipid A Modifications in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2021, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Expanding the Burkholderia pseudomallei Complex with the Addition of Two Novel Species: Burkholderia mayonis sp. nov. and Burkholderia savannae sp. nov., 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Novel Cassette Assay To Quantify the Outer Membrane Permeability of Five β-Lactams Simultaneously in Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae, 2020, mBio
  • The Burkholderia pseudomallei intracellular 'TRANSITome', 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A broad-host-range Flp-FRT recombination system for site-specific excision of chromosomally-located DNA sequences: application for isolation of unmarked Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants.

    Tung T Hoang;RoxAnn R Karkhoff-Schweizer;Alecksandr J Kutchma;Herbert P Schweizer

  • A 10-min method for preparation of highly electrocompetent Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells: Application for DNA fragment transfer between chromosomes and plasmid transformation

    Kyoung-Hee Choi;Ayush Kumar;Herbert P. Schweizer

  • mini-Tn7 insertion in bacteria with single attTn7 sites: example Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Kyoung-Hee Choi;Herbert P Schweizer

  • A Tn7-based broad-range bacterial cloning and expression system

    Kyoung-Hee Choi;Jared B Gaynor;Kimberly G White;Carolina Lopez

  • Bacterial resistance to antibiotics: active efflux and reduced uptake.

    Ayush Kumar;Herbert P. Schweizer

  • Construction of improved Escherichia-Pseudomonas shuttle vectors derived from pUC18/19 and sequence of the region required for their replication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    S.E.H. West;H.P. Schweizer;C. Dall;A.K. Sample

  • Triclosan: a widely used biocide and its link to antibiotics

    Herbert P Schweizer

  • Integration-proficient plasmids for Pseudomonas aeruginosa: site-specific integration and use for engineering of reporter and expression strains.

    Tung T Hoang;Alecks J Kutchma;Anna Becher;Herbert P Schweizer

  • Precision-engineering the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genome with two-step allelic exchange

    Laura R Hmelo;Bradley R Borlee;Henrik Almblad;Michelle E Love

  • Cross-resistance between triclosan and antibiotics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is mediated by multidrug efflux pumps: exposure of a susceptible mutant strain to triclosan selects nfxB mutants overexpressing MexCD-OprJ.

    Rungtip Chuanchuen;Kerry Beinlich;Tung T. Hoang;Anna Becher

  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Plant Root Interactions. Pathogenicity, Biofilm Formation, and Root Exudation

    Travis S. Walker;Harsh Pal Bais;Eric Déziel;Herbert P. Schweizer

  • ESCHERICHIA-PSEUDOMONAS SHUTTLE VECTORS DERIVED FROM PUC18/19

    H.P. Schweizer

  • Root specific elicitation and antimicrobial activity of rosmarinic acid in hairy root cultures of Ocimum basilicum

    Harsh Pal Bais;Travis S Walker;Herbert P Schweizer;Jorge M Vivanco

  • An improved system for gene replacement and xylE fusion analysis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Herbert P. Schweizer;Tung T. Hoang

  • Efflux as a mechanism of resistance to antimicrobials in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and related bacteria: unanswered questions.

    Herbert P Schweizer

  • Allelic exchange in Pseudomonas aeruginosa using novel ColE1-type vectors and a family of cassettes containing a portable oriT and the counter-selectable Bacillus subtilis sacB marker.

    Herbert P. Schweizer

  • Antibiotic resistance in Burkholderia species.

    Katherine A. Rhodes;Herbert P. Schweizer

  • Integration-Proficient Pseudomonas aeruginosa Vectors for Isolation of Single-Copy Chromosomal lacZ and lux Gene Fusions

    Anna Becher;Herbert P. Schweizer

  • The MexJK Efflux Pump of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Requires OprM for Antibiotic Efflux but Not for Efflux of Triclosan

    Rungtip Chuanchuen;Craig T. Narasaki;Herbert P. Schweizer

  • An improved method for rapid generation of unmarked Pseudomonas aeruginosa deletion mutants

    Kyoung-Hee Choi;Herbert P Schweizer

  • Protective Role of Catalase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Resistance to Hydrogen Peroxide

    James G. Elkins;Daniel J. Hassett;Philip S. Stewart;Philip S. Stewart;Herbert P. Schweizer

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon J. Peacock
Sharon J. Peacock University of Cambridge
Steven W. Dow
Steven W. Dow Colorado State University
Jorge M. Vivanco
Jorge M. Vivanco Colorado State University
Vanaporn Wuthiekanun
Vanaporn Wuthiekanun Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Direk Limmathurotsakul
Direk Limmathurotsakul Mahidol University
Harsh P. Bais
Harsh P. Bais University of Delaware
Joanna B. Goldberg
Joanna B. Goldberg Emory University
David A. B. Dance
David A. B. Dance University of Oxford
Bart J. Currie
Bart J. Currie Charles Darwin University
David DeShazer
David DeShazer United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

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