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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
80
Citations
22118
World Ranking
1168
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Joana Azeredo is affiliated with the University of Minho in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a subfield emphasis on ecology, molecular biology, microbiology, plant science, and endocrinology.

Their scholarly work covers key topics including bacteriophages and microbial interactions, microbial infections and disease research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, microbial community ecology and physiology, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and plant virus research studies.

Joana Azeredo has contributed to a number of scientific publications, including notable recent papers such as:

  • Targeting biofilms using phages and their enzymes, 2021, Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  • Current challenges and future opportunities of phage therapy, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study, 2024, Nature Microbiology
  • Phage therapy efficacy: a review of the last 10 years of preclinical studies, 2020, Critical Reviews in Microbiology
  • Understanding the Complex Phage-Host Interactions in Biofilm Communities, 2021, Annual Review of Virology

The venues where Azeredo frequently publishes include Scientific Reports, Biofilm, Methods in Molecular Biology, Current Opinion in Virology, and Applied and Environmental Microbiology. These publication venues highlight a focus on microbiology, biofilms, and microbial communities.

Frequent coauthors in Azeredo's work include Diana P. Pires, Luís D. R. Melo, Hugo Oliveira, Graça Pinto, and Rob Lavigne. The collaboration with these researchers appears across various studies involving bacteriophages and microbial biofilms.

Best Publications

  • Candida glabrata, Candida parapsilosis and Candida tropicalis: biology, epidemiology, pathogenicity and antifungal resistance

    Sónia Silva;Melyssa Negri;Mariana Henriques;Rosário Oliveira

  • Critical review on biofilm methods

    Joana Azeredo;Nuno F. Azevedo;Romain Briandet;Nuno Cerca

  • Vulvovaginal candidiasis: Epidemiology, microbiology and risk factors

    Bruna Gonçalves;Carina Ferreira;Carlos Tiago Alves;Mariana Henriques

  • Bacteriophage-encoded depolymerases: their diversity and biotechnological applications

    Diana Priscila Penso Pires;Hugo Alexandre Mendes Oliveira;Luís D. R. Melo;Sanna Sillankorva

  • Biofilms of non-Candida albicans Candida species: quantification, structure and matrix composition.

    Sónia Carina Silva;Mariana Henriques;António Martins;Rosário Oliveira

  • Genetically Engineered Phages: a Review of Advances over the Last Decade

    Diana P. Pires;Diana P. Pires;Sara Cleto;Sanna Sillankorva;Joana Azeredo

  • Quantitative analysis of adhesion and biofilm formation on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis

    Nuno Cerca;Gerald B. Pier;Manuel Vilanova;Rosário Oliveira

  • Engineered Endolysin-Based “Artilysins” To Combat Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Pathogens

    Yves Briers;Maarten Walmagh;Victor Van Puyenbroeck;Anneleen Cornelissen

  • The use of phages for the removal of infectious biofilms.

    Joana Azeredo;Ian W. Sutherland

  • Bacteriophages and Their Role in Food Safety

    Sanna Sillankorva;Hugo Alexandre Mendes Oliveira;Joana Azeredo

  • Adherence and biofilm formation of non-Candida albicans Candida species

    Sónia Silva;Melyssa Negri;Mariana Henriques;Rosário Oliveira

  • Revisiting phage therapy: new applications for old resources

    Franklin L. Nobrega;Ana Rita Costa;Leon D. Kluskens;Joana Azeredo

  • The Phage Therapy Paradigm: Prêt-à-Porter or Sur-mesure?

    Jean-Paul Pirnay;Daniel De Vos;Gilbert Verbeken;Maia Merabishvili

  • Molecular Aspects and Comparative Genomics of Bacteriophage Endolysins

    Hugo Alexandre Mendes Oliveira;Luís D. R. Melo;Sílvio Roberto Branco Santos;Franklin Luzia Nóbrega

  • Comparative assessment of antibiotic susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococci in biofilm versus planktonic culture as assessed by bacterial enumeration or rapid XTT colorimetry.

    Nuno Cerca;Silvia Martins;Filipe Cerca;Kimberly K. Jefferson

  • Phage Therapy: Going Temperate?

    Rodrigo Monteiro;Diana Priscila Penso Pires;Ana Rita Martins Costa;Ana Rita Martins Costa;Joana Azeredo

  • Current challenges and future opportunities of phage therapy

    Diana P Pires;Ana Rita Costa;Graça Pinto;Luciana Meneses

  • Phage therapy as an alternative or complementary strategy to prevent and control biofilm-related infections.

    DP Pires;Ldr Melo;D Vilas Boas;S Sillankorva

  • Comparative antibody-mediated phagocytosis of Staphylococcus epidermidis cells grown in a biofilm or in the planktonic state

    Nuno Cerca;Kimberly K. Jefferson;Kimberly K. Jefferson;Rosario Oliveira;Gerald B. Pier

  • The in vivo efficacy of two administration routes of a phage cocktail to reduce numbers of Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni in chickens.

    Carla M Carvalho;Ben W Gannon;Deborah E Halfhide;Silvio B Santos

  • Bacteriophage therapy : from lab to clinical practice

    Joana Azeredo;Sanna Sillankorva

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosário Oliveira
Rosário Oliveira University of Minho
Mariana Henriques
Mariana Henriques University of Minho
Nuno Cerca
Nuno Cerca University of Minho
Andrew M. Kropinski
Andrew M. Kropinski University of Guelph
David Wynne Williams
David Wynne Williams Cardiff University
Rob Lavigne
Rob Lavigne KU Leuven
Gerald B. Pier
Gerald B. Pier Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eugénio C. Ferreira
Eugénio C. Ferreira University of Minho
Kimberly K. Jefferson
Kimberly K. Jefferson Virginia Commonwealth University
Peter Neubauer
Peter Neubauer Technical University of Berlin

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