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Odile Mercereau-Puijalon

Odile Mercereau-Puijalon

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
80
Citations
22403
World Ranking
1164
National Ranking
67

Odile Mercereau-Puijalon 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 Odile Mercereau-Puijalon sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 268 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.

Odile Mercereau-Puijalon 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 Odile Mercereau-Puijalon sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Odile Mercereau-Puijalon is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France. Their work centers primarily on Medicine, with a focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology, and Hepatology. The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Malaria Research and Control, Parasites and Host Interactions, Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, and Travel-related health issues.

Recent publications by Odile Mercereau-Puijalon include:

  • One hundred malaria attacks since birth. A longitudinal study of African children and young adults exposed to high malaria transmission, 2023, EClinicalMedicine
  • School-Based Serosurveys to Assess the Validity of Using Routine Health Facility Data to Target Malaria Interventions in the Central Highlands of Madagascar, 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The scientist has frequently published in the venues EClinicalMedicine and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Odile Mercereau-Puijalon has collaborated notably with several researchers, including:

  • Inès Vigan-Womas
  • Ronald Perraut
  • Christophe Rogier
  • Jean-François Trape
  • Nafissatou Diagne

Best Publications

  • A molecular marker of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    Frédéric Ariey;Benoit Witkowski;Chanaki Amaratunga;Johann Beghain

  • K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates

    Judith Straimer;Nina F. Gnädig;Benoit Witkowski;Chanaki Amaratunga

  • Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum field isolates to in-vitro artemether and point mutations of the SERCA-type PfATPase6

    Ronan Jambou;Eric Legrand;Makhtar Niang;Nimol Khim

  • Novel phenotypic assays for the detection of artemisinin- resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Cambodia: in-vitro and ex-vivo drug-response studies

    Benoit Witkowski;Chanaki Amaratunga;Nimol Khim;Sokunthea Sreng

  • A Worldwide Map of Plasmodium Falciparum K13-Propeller Polymorphisms

    Didier Ménard;Nimol Khim;Johann Beghain;Ayola A. Adegnika;Ayola A. Adegnika

  • Independent Emergence of Artemisinin Resistance Mutations Among Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia

    Shannon Takala-Harrison;Christopher G. Jacob;Cesar Arze;Michael P. Cummings

  • Plasmodium vivax clinical malaria is commonly observed in Duffy-negative Malagasy people

    Didier Ménard;Céline Barnadas;Christiane Bouchier;Cara Henry-Halldin

  • A surrogate marker of piperaquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a phenotype–genotype association study

    Benoit Witkowski;Valentine Duru;Nimol Khim;Leila S Ross

  • Malaria morbidity and pyrethroid resistance after the introduction of insecticide-treated bednets and artemisinin-based combination therapies: a longitudinal study

    Jean-François Trape;Adama Tall;Nafissatou Diagne;Ousmane Ndiath

  • The pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in humans: insights from splenic physiology

    Pierre A. Buffet;Pierre A. Buffet;Innocent Safeukui;Innocent Safeukui;Guillaume Deplaine;Guillaume Deplaine;Valentine Brousse

  • Age-dependent carriage of multiple Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface antigen-2 alleles in asymptomatic malaria infections.

    Francine Ntoumi;Hugues Contamin;Christophe Rogier;Serge Bonnefoy

  • The Toxoplasma gondii rhoptry protein ROP 2 is inserted into the parasitophorous vacuole membrane, surrounding the intracellular parasite, and is exposed to the host cell cytoplasm.

    Con J.M. Beckers;Jean Francois Dubremetz;Odile Mercereau-Puijalon;Keith A. Joiner

  • Reduced artemisinin susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum ring stages in western Cambodia

    Benoît Witkowski;Nimol Khim;Pheaktra Chim;Saorin Kim

  • Effect of plasmodial RESA protein on deformability of human red blood cells harboring Plasmodium falciparum

    J. P. Mills;M. Diez-Silva;D. J. Quinn;M. Dao

  • Extensive genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum isolates collected from patients with severe malaria in Dakar, Senegal

    F. Robert;F. Ntoumi;G. Angel;D. Candito

  • The sensing of poorly deformable red blood cells by the human spleen can be mimicked in vitro

    Guillaume Deplaine;Guillaume Deplaine;Guillaume Deplaine;Innocent Safeukui;Innocent Safeukui;Fakhri Jeddi;François Lacoste

  • Plasmodium falciparum dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine failures in Cambodia are associated with mutant K13 parasites presenting high survival rates in novel piperaquine in vitro assays: retrospective and prospective investigations

    Valentine Duru;Nimol Khim;Rithea Leang;Saorin Kim

  • The rise and fall of malaria in a west African rural community, Dielmo, Senegal, from 1990 to 2012: a 22 year longitudinal study

    Jean-François Trape;Adama Tall;Cheikh Sokhna;Alioune Badara Ly

  • A liver-stage-specific antigen of Plasmodium falciparum characterized by gene cloning.

    Claudine Guerin-Marchand;Pierre Druilhe;Bénédicte Galey;Arturo Londono

  • Rapid turnover of Plasmodium falciparum populations in asymptomatic individuals living in a high transmission area.

    Pierre Daubersies;Selma Sallenave-Sales;Sebastien Magne;Jean-Francois Trape

  • 5. Variation of Plasmodium falciparum msp1 block 2 and msp2 allele prevalence and of infection complexity in two neighbouring Senegalese villages with different transmission conditions

    Lassana Konaté;Joanna Zwetyenga;Christophe Rogier;Emmanuel Bischoff

  • Nitric Oxide Synthase 2Lambaréné (G‐954C), Increased Nitric Oxide Production, and Protection against Malaria

    Jürgen F. Kun;Benjamin Mordmüller;Douglas J. Perkins;Douglas J. Perkins;Jürgen May

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Trape
Jean-François Trape Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Didier Ménard
Didier Ménard Institut Pasteur
Christophe Rogier
Christophe Rogier Institut Pasteur
Christiane Bouchier
Christiane Bouchier Institut Pasteur
Geneviève Milon
Geneviève Milon Institut Pasteur
Anavaj Sakuntabhai
Anavaj Sakuntabhai Institut Pasteur
Pascal Ringwald
Pascal Ringwald World Health Organization
Gordon Langsley
Gordon Langsley Université Paris Cité
Pierre Druilhe
Pierre Druilhe Institut Pasteur
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford

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