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Microbiology
France
2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
106
Citations
48665
World Ranking
294
National Ranking
12

Medicine

D-Index
106
Citations
49271
World Ranking
6438
National Ranking
188

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in France Leader Award

Overview

Jerome Etienne is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of medicine and health professions. Their work frequently addresses topics related to infectious diseases, public health, and clinical biochemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics, including:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Jerome Etienne's subfields of study further reflect these interests and include:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Speech and Hearing

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • Prognostic factors of severe community-acquired staphylococcal pneumonia in France, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
  • Assessing the implementation of community-based learning in public health: a mixed methods approach, 2022, BMC Medical Education
  • Risk factors of severity in community-acquired staphylococcal pneumonia, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Detecting emotion in individuals with disorders of consciousness: a pilot study of heart rate deceleration on affective auditory stimuli, 2025, Clinical Neurophysiology

They have published across multiple venues, including:

  • European Respiratory Journal
  • BMC Medical Education
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Frequent collaborators include Yves Gillet, Anne Tristan, Jean-Philippe Rasigade, Mitra Saadatian-Elahi, and Coralie Bouchiat, each contributing to multiple shared publications.

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

  • Combination of multiplex PCRs for staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type assignment: rapid identification system for mec, ccr, and major differences in junkyard regions.

    Yoko Kondo;Teruyo Ito;Xiao Xue Ma;Shinya Watanabe

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Diagnosis of 22 New Cases of Bartonella Endocarditis

    Didier Raoult;Pierre E. Fournier;Michel Drancourt;Thomas J. Marrie

  • Consensus sequence-based scheme for epidemiological typing of clinical and environmental isolates of Legionella pneumophila

    Valeria Gaia;Norman K. Fry;Baharak Afshar;P. Christian Lück

  • Polymorphonuclear leukocytes mediate Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin-induced lung inflammation and injury

    Binh An Diep;Liana Chan;Pierre Tattevin;Osamu Kajikawa

  • A Community-Wide Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease Linked to Industrial Cooling Towers—How Far Can Contaminated Aerosols Spread?

    Tran Minh Nhu Nguyen;Daniele Ilef;Sophie Jarraud;Laurence Rouil

  • Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII and the endoribonuclease III coordinately regulate spa gene expression

    Eric Huntzinger;Sandrine Boisset;Cosmin Saveanu;Yvonne Benito

  • Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana endocarditis in three homeless men

    Michel Drancourt;Jean Luc Mainardi;Philippe Brouqui;François Vandenesch

Frequent Co-Authors

François Vandenesch
François Vandenesch Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Gerard Lina
Gerard Lina Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michèle Bes
Michèle Bes Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sophie Jarraud
Sophie Jarraud Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Frédéric Laurent
Frédéric Laurent Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Didier Raoult
Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University
Marc Struelens
Marc Struelens Université Libre de Bruxelles
Carmen Buchrieser
Carmen Buchrieser Institut Pasteur
Alex van Belkum
Alex van Belkum BaseClear B.V.
Mark C. Enright
Mark C. Enright Manchester Metropolitan University

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