2026 Saul Tzipori: Animal Science and Veterinary Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Animal Science and Veterinary	89	36	35	14	13	353	24079
Microbiology	88	772	685	360	300	345	23661

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United States Leader Award

Overview

Saul Tzipori is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant work in Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Endocrinology, Immunology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics covered in their research include:

Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
Escherichia coli research studies
Amoebic Infections and Treatments
Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Saul Tzipori include:

"Identification and characterization of a new 34 kDa MORN motif-containing sporozoite surface-exposed protein, Cp-P34, unique to Cryptosporidium," published in 2021 in the International Journal for Parasitology
"One health therapeutics: Target-Based drug development for cryptosporidiosis and other apicomplexa diseases," published in 2020 in Veterinary Parasitology
"Cryptosporidium infection of human small intestinal epithelial cells induces type III interferon and impairs infectivity of Rotavirus," published in 2024 in Gut Microbes
"Single domain antibodies against enteric pathogen virulence factors are active as curli fiber fusions on probiotic E. coli Nissle 1917," published in 2022 in PLoS Pathogens
"The repurposing of Tebipenem pivoxil as alternative therapy for severe gastrointestinal infections caused by extensively drug-resistant Shigella spp.," published in 2022 in Apollo (University of Cambridge)

Frequently collaborating co-authors with Saul Tzipori include:

Denise Dayao
Justyna J. Jaskiewicz
Charles B. Shoemaker
Giovanni Widmer
Jacqueline M. Tremblay

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Pathogens
Scientific Reports
Infection and Immunity
PLoS ONE

Best Publications

Complete genome sequence of the apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum.

Mitchell S. Abrahamsen;Thomas J. Templeton;Shinichiro Enomoto;Juan E. Abrahante

1272
Citations
The genome of Cryptosporidium hominis

Ping Xu;Giovanni Widmer;Yingping Wang;Luiz S. Ozaki

696
Citations
Evidence for the shikimate pathway in apicomplexan parasites

Fiona Roberts;Fiona Roberts;Craig W. Roberts;Jennifer J. Johnson;Dennis E. Kyle

633
Citations
The role of the eae gene of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in intimate attachment in vitro and in a porcine model.

M S Donnenberg;S Tzipori;M L McKee;A D O'Brien

503
Citations
Cryptosporidiosis in animals and humans.

S Tzipori

475
Citations
Prevalence of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in Swine: an 18-Month Survey at a Slaughterhouse in Massachusetts

Michael A. Buckholt;John H. Lee;Saul Tzipori

419
Citations
Cryptosporidiosis: biology, pathogenesis and disease.

Saul Tzipori;Honorine Ward

402
Citations
The role of the eaeA gene in diarrhea and neurological complications in a gnotobiotic piglet model of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection.

S Tzipori;F Gunzer;M S Donnenberg;L de Montigny

317
Citations
Cryptosporidium hominis: experimental challenge of healthy adults.

Cynthia L. Chappell;Pablo C. Okhuysen;Rebecca Langer-Curry;Giovanni Widmer

290
Citations
Cryptosporidiosis in perspective.

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285
Citations
Role of a 60-megadalton plasmid and Shiga-like toxins in the pathogenesis of infection caused by enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 in gnotobiotic piglets.

S Tzipori;H Karch;K I Wachsmuth;R M Robins-Browne

261
Citations
Cryptosporidium parvum in children with diarrhea in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.

James K. Tumwine;Addy Kekitiinwa;Nicolette Nabukeera;Donna E. Akiyoshi

254
Citations
A pig model of the human gastrointestinal tract

Quanshun Zhang;Giovanni Widmer;Saul Tzipori

254
Citations
The pathogenesis of hemorrhagic colitis caused by Escherichia coli O157:H7 in gnotobiotic piglets.

Saul Tzipori;I. Kaye Wachsmuth;Colin Chapman;Raquella Birner

254
Citations
CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS AND MICROSPORIDIOSIS IN UGANDAN CHILDREN WITH PERSISTENT DIARRHEA WITH AND WITHOUT CONCURRENT INFECTION WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS

James K. Tumwine;Addy Kekitiinwa;Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka;Grace Ndeezi

253
Citations
Molecular cloning and expression of a gene encoding Cryptosporidium parvum glycoproteins gp40 and gp15.

Ana Maria Cevallos;Xiaoping Zhang;Matthew K. Waldor;Smitha Jaison

245
Citations
Natural history and biology of Cryptosporidium parvum.

Saul Tzipori;Jeffrey K. Griffiths

244
Citations
The shikimate pathway and its branches in apicomplexan parasites.

Craig W. Roberts;Fiona Roberts;Russell E. Lyons;Michael J. Kirisits

242
Citations
Experimental cryptosporidiosis in laboratory mice.

D Sherwood;K W Angus;D R Snodgrass;S Tzipori

236
Citations
Efficacy of Nitazoxanide against Cryptosporidium parvum in Cell Culture and in Animal Models

Cynthia M. Theodos;Jeffrey K. Griffiths;Jennifer D’Onfro;Alexandra Fairfield

234
Citations
A hundred-year retrospective on cryptosporidiosis

Saul Tzipori;Giovanni Widmer

223
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Widmer Tufts University

Charles B. Shoemaker Tufts University

Gerald T. Keusch Boston University

Honorine D. Ward Tufts University

Abraham L. Sonenshein Tufts University

Roy M. Robins-Browne University of Melbourne

Pablo C. Okhuysen The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Louis M. Weiss Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dennis E. Kyle University of Georgia

Rima McLeod University of Chicago

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