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2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
73
Citations
17127
World Ranking
1686
National Ranking
10

Luiz R. Travassos 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 Luiz R. Travassos sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 269 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luiz R. Travassos 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 Luiz R. Travassos sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Luiz R. Travassos was affiliated with the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Immunology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Oncology.

The scientist's main topics of study involved fungal infections and their associated challenges, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, nail diseases and treatments, immunotherapy and immune responses, peptidase inhibition and analysis, and neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Among recent publications, several notable papers included: "MIF inhibition as a strategy for overcoming resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapy in melanoma" (2020, OncoImmunology); "Therapies and Vaccines Based on Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections" (2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology); "Immunotherapy against Systemic Fungal Infections Based on Monoclonal Antibodies" (2020, Journal of Fungi); "Intranasal Vaccine Using P10 Peptide Complexed within Chitosan Polymeric Nanoparticles as Experimental Therapy for Paracoccidioidomycosis in Murine Model" (2020, Journal of Fungi); and "Immunomodulatory Protective Effects of Rb9 Cyclic-Peptide in a Metastatic Melanoma Setting and the Involvement of Dendritic Cells" (2020, Frontiers in Immunology).

The scientist collaborated frequently with colleagues including Carlos P. Taborda, Fabrício C. Machado, Ricardo Azevedo, Brenda Kischkel, and Suélen Andreia Rossi.

Publications appeared most often in several journals, notably:

  • Journal of Fungi (2 publications)
  • OncoImmunology (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (1 publication)
  • Scientific Reports (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Immunology (1 publication)

Luiz R. Travassos received the award of Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1971.

Best Publications

  • Activation of Toll-like receptor-2 by glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors from a protozoan parasite.

    Marco A. S. Campos;Igor C. Almeida;Osamu Takeuchi;Shizuo Akira

  • Randomised trial of efficacy of benznidazole in treatment of early Trypanosoma cruzi infection

    Ana Lúcia Sampaio Sgambatti de Andrade;Fabio Zicker;Renato Mauricio de Oliveira;Simone Almeida e Silva

  • GD3, a prominent ganglioside of human melanoma. Detection and characterisation by mouse monoclonal antibody.

    Clifford S. Pukel;Kenneth O. Lloyd;Luiz R. Travassos;Wolfgang G. Dippold

  • Highly purified glycosylphosphatidylinositols from Trypanosoma cruzi are potent proinflammatory agents.

    Igor C. Almeida;Igor C. Almeida;Maristela M. Camargo;Daniela O. Procópio;Luiz S. Silva

  • Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006

    Marli Prado;Marcelo Barbosa da Silva;Ruy Laurenti;Luiz Rodolpho Travassos

  • Exocellular components of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: identification of a specific antigen.

    R Puccia;S Schenkman;P A Gorin;L R Travassos

  • Mucin-like molecules form a negatively charged coat that protects Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes from killing by human anti-alpha-galactosyl antibodies

    V.L. Pereira-Chioccola;A. Acosta-Serrano;I. Correia de Almeida;M.A. Ferguson

  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored mucin-like glycoproteins isolated from Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes initiate the synthesis of proinflammatory cytokines by macrophages.

    Maristela M. Camargo;Igor C. Almeida;Maria E S Pereira;Michael A J Ferguson

  • Binding of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis to laminin through surface glycoprotein gp43 leads to enhancement of fungal pathogenesis.

    A P Vicentini;J L Gesztesi;M F Franco;W de Souza

  • Production of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis exoantigens for immunodiffusion tests.

    Z De Camargo;C Unterkircher;S P Campoy;L R Travassos

  • Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis of the Human Pathogen Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Yeast Phase: Identification of Putative Homologues of Candida albicans Virulence and Pathogenicity Genes

    Gustavo H. Goldman;Everaldo dos Reis Marques;Diógenes Custódio Duarte Ribeiro;Luciano Ângelo de Souza Bernardes

  • Human antibodies against a purified glucosylceramide from Cryptococcus neoformans inhibit cell budding and fungal growth.

    Marcio L. Rodrigues;Luiz R. Travassos;Kildare R. Miranda;Anderson J. Franzen

  • α-Pinene isolated from Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae) induces apoptosis and confers antimetastatic protection in a melanoma model.

    Alisson Leonardo Matsuo;Carlos Rogerio Figueiredo;Denise Costa Arruda;Felipe Valença Pereira

  • Lytic anti-α-galactosyl antibodies from patients with chronic Chagas' disease recognize novel O-linked oligosaccharides on mucin-like glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins of Trypanosoma cruzi

    Igor C. Almeida;Michael A. J. Ferguson;Sergio Schenkman;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Complement-mediated lysis of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes by human anti-alpha-galactosyl antibodies.

    Igor C. Almeida;Sandra R. Milani;Philip A J Gorin;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Protein tyrosine phosphorylation and protein tyrosine nitration in redox signaling.

    Hugo P. Monteiro;Roberto J. Arai;Luiz R. Travassos

  • Human melanoma antigen AH is an autoantigenic ganglioside related to GD2.

    Tadashi Watanabe;Clifford S. Pukel;Hideo Takeyama;Kenneth O. Lloyd

  • 43-kilodalton glycoprotein from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis: immunochemical reactions with sera from patients with paracoccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, or Jorge Lobo's disease.

    Rosana Puccia;Luiz Rodolpho Travassos

  • CLONING, CHARACTERIZATION, AND EPITOPE EXPRESSION OF THE MAJOR DIAGNOSTIC ANTIGEN OF PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS

    Patrícia S. Cisalpino;Rosana Puccia;Lucy M. Yamauchi;Maria I.N. Cano

  • Melanin as a virulence factor of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and other dimorphic pathogenic fungi: a minireview.

    Carlos P. Taborda;Marcelo B. da Silva;Joshua D. Nosanchuk;Luiz R. Travassos

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos P. Taborda
Carlos P. Taborda Universidade de São Paulo
Igor C. Almeida
Igor C. Almeida The University of Texas at El Paso
Maria A. Juliano
Maria A. Juliano Federal University of Sao Paulo
Celuta S. Alviano
Celuta S. Alviano Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marcio L. Rodrigues
Marcio L. Rodrigues Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Luciano Polonelli
Luciano Polonelli University of Parma
Joshua D. Nosanchuk
Joshua D. Nosanchuk Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Michael A. J. Ferguson
Michael A. J. Ferguson University of Dundee
Leonardo Nimrichter
Leonardo Nimrichter Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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