Almudena Burillo

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Almudena Burillo is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Almudena Burillo has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Epidemiology, 29 papers in Infectious Diseases and 20 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Almudena Burillo's work include Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (20 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (18 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (17 papers). Almudena Burillo is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (20 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (18 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (17 papers). Almudena Burillo collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Italy. Almudena Burillo's co-authors include Emilio Bouza, Patricia Muñóz, Burke A. Cunha, Emilia Cercenado, María Luisa Pedro-Botet, Marta Rodríguez‐Créixems, Mercedes Marín, Jesús Guinea, Luís Alcalá and Belén Rodríguez‐Sánchez and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Almudena Burillo

60 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Legionnaires' disease 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Legionnaires' disease
    2015 370 citations Burke A. Cunha, Almudena Burillo et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Almudena Burillo Spain 22 624 540 447 290 272 64 1.6k
Angella Goetz United States 22 415 0.7× 593 1.1× 673 1.5× 259 0.9× 426 1.6× 50 2.0k
Nieves Sopena Spain 21 713 1.1× 333 0.6× 641 1.4× 88 0.3× 235 0.9× 75 1.5k
Alan I. Hartstein United States 18 447 0.7× 595 1.1× 318 0.7× 306 1.1× 259 1.0× 33 1.5k
Jeffrey J. Zuravleff United States 14 419 0.7× 481 0.9× 335 0.7× 241 0.8× 262 1.0× 20 1.5k
Despina Kotsanas Australia 21 445 0.7× 821 1.5× 87 0.2× 248 0.9× 254 0.9× 57 1.5k
Adrián Camacho-Ortíz Mexico 21 378 0.6× 622 1.2× 223 0.5× 142 0.5× 360 1.3× 121 1.3k
Shampa Anupurba India 21 521 0.8× 645 1.2× 101 0.2× 221 0.8× 257 0.9× 77 1.4k
Dimitrios K. Matthaiou Greece 26 1.0k 1.6× 522 1.0× 335 0.7× 240 0.8× 299 1.1× 49 2.6k
Thaís Guimarães Brazil 26 928 1.5× 995 1.8× 208 0.5× 172 0.6× 188 0.7× 96 2.1k
Rasmus Leistner Germany 20 299 0.5× 336 0.6× 160 0.4× 200 0.7× 128 0.5× 61 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Almudena Burillo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Almudena Burillo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Almudena Burillo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Almudena Burillo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Almudena Burillo. Almudena Burillo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Muñóz, Patricia, et al.. (2025). Is Time to Positivity in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia a Harbinger of Endocarditis?. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 81(6). e731–e732.
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Burillo, Almudena, et al.. (2025). Is it possible to identify genotypes underlying resistant phenotypes in Gram-negative pathogens?. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 38(6). 605–615.
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Kestler, Martha, Almudena Burillo, Silvia Corcione, et al.. (2024). Diagnostic and prognostic value of time to positivity in blood cultures. An opinion paper. Revista Española de Quimioterapia. 38(1). 8–20. 1 indexed citations
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Pérez-Granda, María Jesús, Almudena Burillo, Pablo Martín‐Rabadán, et al.. (2024). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and the epidemiology of catheter-related bloodstream infection two years later. Heliyon. 10(14). e34185–e34185. 1 indexed citations
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Galar, Alicia, Patricia Muñóz, Maricela Valerio, et al.. (2018). Current use of daptomycin and systematic therapeutic drug monitoring: Clinical experience in a tertiary care institution. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 53(1). 40–48. 38 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio, Almudena Burillo, Patricia Muñóz, et al.. (2018). Do lower respiratory tract samples contribute to the assessment of carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation after major heart surgery?. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0207854–e0207854. 1 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio, José Martínez-Alarcón, Emilio Maseda, et al.. (2016). Quality of the aetiological diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia in Spain in the opinion of intensive care specialists and microbiologists. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. 35(3). 153–164. 2 indexed citations
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Bunsow, Eleonora, et al.. (2015). Improved Sepsis Alert With a Telephone Call From the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Medicine. 94(39). e1454–e1454. 11 indexed citations
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Cunha, Burke A., Almudena Burillo, & Emilio Bouza. (2015). Legionnaires' disease. The Lancet. 387(10016). 376–385. 370 indexed citations breakdown →
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Montilla, Pedro, et al.. (2013). Recurrent infection in the left thumb. Infection. 41(6). 1203–1204. 3 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio, Almudena Burillo, & María Guembe. (2011). Managing intravascular catheter-related infections in heart transplant patients. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 24(4). 302–308. 7 indexed citations
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Burillo, Almudena, et al.. (2010). Estudio comparativo de Wider, E-test y microdilución para la determinación de la sensibilidad a daptomicina y otros tres antimicrobianos de aislamientos clínicos de Staphylococcus spp. resistentes a meticilina y Enterococcus spp.. Revista española de quimioterapia. Suplemento. 23(2). 87–92. 2 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio & Almudena Burillo. (2010). Oritavancin: a novel lipoglycopeptide active against Gram-positive pathogens including multiresistant strains. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 36(5). 401–407. 37 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio & Almudena Burillo. (2009). Advances in the prevention and management of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 22(4). 345–351. 25 indexed citations
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Burillo, Almudena, et al.. (2007). Diagnóstico microbiológico de las infecciones de piel y tejidos blandos. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. 25(9). 579–586. 16 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio, et al.. (2005). Aportación del laboratorio de microbiología al diagnóstico de la neumonía asociada a la ventilación mecánica. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. 23. 2–9. 5 indexed citations
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Bouza, Emilio, Patricia Muñóz, Almudena Burillo, et al.. (2005). The challenge of anticipating catheter tip colonization in major heart surgery patients in the intensive care unit: Are surface cultures useful?. Critical Care Medicine. 33(9). 1953–1960. 32 indexed citations
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Muñóz, Patricia, Almudena Burillo, & Emilio Bouza. (2001). Environmental surveillance and other control measures in the prevention of nosocomial fungal infections. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 7. 38–45. 51 indexed citations
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Muñóz, Patricia, Almudena Burillo, & Emilio Bouza. (2000). Criteria used when initiating antifungal therapy against Candida spp. in the intensive care unit. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 15(2). 83–90. 74 indexed citations
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Burillo, Almudena, et al.. (1998). RHODOCOCCUS EQUI INFECTION IN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS. Transplantation. 65(3). 449–453. 50 indexed citations

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