Catherine Lavazec

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Catherine Lavazec is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Lavazec has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 20 papers in Immunology and 10 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Catherine Lavazec's work include Malaria Research and Control (35 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers) and Complement system in diseases (12 papers). Catherine Lavazec is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (35 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (18 papers) and Complement system in diseases (12 papers). Catherine Lavazec collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Catherine Lavazec's co-authors include Thomas J. Templeton, Sohini Sanyal, Catherine Bourgouin, Odile Mercereau‐Puijalon, Pierre Buffet, Sylvie Perrot, Pietro Alano, Chris J. Janse, Andrew P. Waters and Peter H. David and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Blood and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Lavazec

43 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

Expression switching in the stevor and Pfmc‐2TM superfamilies in Plasmodium falciparum

2007 556 citations Catherine Lavazec, Sohini Sanyal et al. Molecular Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine Lavazec France	20	955	651	532	194	135	44	1.7k
Joanne Thompson United Kingdom	23	904 0.9×	599 0.9×	696 1.3×	262 1.4×	42 0.3×	39	1.9k
Wang Nguitragool Thailand	24	1.1k 1.2×	616 0.9×	290 0.5×	288 1.5×	40 0.3×	83	1.8k
Izumi Kaneko Japan	17	640 0.7×	416 0.6×	442 0.8×	160 0.8×	38 0.3×	39	1.1k
Joanna A. M. Braks Netherlands	16	945 1.0×	627 1.0×	537 1.0×	162 0.8×	54 0.4×	22	1.6k
Sash Lopaticki Australia	21	1.2k 1.2×	350 0.5×	520 1.0×	260 1.3×	45 0.3×	31	1.6k
Liliana Mâncio-Silva France	22	1.3k 1.3×	841 1.3×	678 1.3×	236 1.2×	40 0.3×	30	2.1k
Céline Carret United Kingdom	20	1.1k 1.1×	580 0.9×	631 1.2×	357 1.8×	18 0.1×	25	1.8k
Lia Chappell United Kingdom	12	531 0.6×	564 0.9×	354 0.7×	138 0.7×	30 0.2×	15	1.1k
Arthur M. Talman United Kingdom	20	793 0.8×	472 0.7×	412 0.8×	232 1.2×	15 0.1×	32	1.4k
Mary A. Rodgers United States	20	410 0.4×	902 1.4×	582 1.1×	68 0.4×	81 0.6×	58	2.2k

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Berry, Laurence, et al.. (2025). The malaria parasite PP1 phosphatase controls the initiation of the egress pathway of asexual blood-stages by regulating the rounding-up of the vacuole. PLoS Pathogens. 21(1). e1012455–e1012455.

Lavazec, Catherine, et al.. (2024). The Anopheles leucine-rich repeat protein APL1C is a pathogen binding factor recognizing Plasmodium ookinetes and sporozoites. PLoS Pathogens. 20(2). e1012008–e1012008. 4 indexed citations

Tavella, Tatyana Almeida, et al.. (2023). Phosphodiesterase delta governs the mechanical properties of erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes. Microbes and Infection. 25(5). 105102–105102. 1 indexed citations

Franetich, Jean‐François, M Carraz, Ludivine Baron, et al.. (2022). Potent Antiplasmodial Derivatives of Dextromethorphan Reveal the Ent-Morphinan Pharmacophore of Tazopsine-Type Alkaloids. Pharmaceutics. 14(2). 372–372. 3 indexed citations

Maciuk, Alexandre, Daniela Barbieri, Raphaë͏l Grougnet, et al.. (2020). A Chemically Stable Fluorescent Mimic of Dihydroartemisinin, Artemether, and Arteether with Conserved Bioactivity and Specificity Shows High Pharmacological Relevance to the Antimalarial Drugs. ACS Infectious Diseases. 6(7). 1532–1547. 11 indexed citations

Lavazec, Catherine, et al.. (2019). Erythrocyte Membrane Makeover by Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2652–2652. 18 indexed citations

Bargieri, Daniel Y., Sabine Thiberge, Florian Hischen, et al.. (2016). Plasmodium Merozoite TRAP Family Protein Is Essential for Vacuole Membrane Disruption and Gamete Egress from Erythrocytes. Cell Host & Microbe. 20(5). 618–630. 47 indexed citations

Bigey, Pascal, Magali Blaud, Laëtitia Kermasson, et al.. (2016). Characterization of an A-kinase anchoring protein-like suggests an alternative way of PKA anchoring in Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria Journal. 15(1). 248–248. 5 indexed citations

Lorthiois, Audrey, Pau Cisteró, Grégory Jouvion, et al.. (2016). A humanized mouse model for sequestration of Plasmodium falciparum sexual stages and in vivo evaluation of gametocytidal drugs. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35025–35025. 26 indexed citations

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Ramdani, Ghania, Eloise Thompson, Audrey Lorthiois, et al.. (2015). cAMP-Signalling Regulates Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocyte Deformability Required for Malaria Parasite Transmission. PLoS Pathogens. 11(5). e1004815–e1004815. 52 indexed citations

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Tibúrcio, Marta, Robert W. Sauerwein, Catherine Lavazec, & Pietro Alano. (2015). Erythrocyte remodeling by Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in the human host interplay. Trends in Parasitology. 31(6). 270–278. 27 indexed citations

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Legrand, Laurence, Catherine Lavazec, F. Brivet, & D. Musset. (2010). Solitary Hypothalamopituitary Toxoplasmosis Abscess in a Patient with AIDS. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 32(6). E105–E106. 1 indexed citations

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Lavazec, Catherine, et al.. (2008). Analysis of mutant Plasmodium berghei parasites lacking expression of multiple PbCCp genes. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 163(1). 1–7. 37 indexed citations

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Frank, Matthias, Laura A. Kirkman, Sohini Sanyal, et al.. (2008). Frequent recombination events generate diversity within the multi-copy variant antigen gene families of Plasmodium falciparum. International Journal for Parasitology. 38(10). 1099–1109. 45 indexed citations

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Moreira, Cristina, Thomas J. Templeton, Catherine Lavazec, et al.. (2008). The Plasmodium TRAP/MIC2 family member, TRAP-Like Protein (TLP), is involved in tissue traversal by sporozoites. Cellular Microbiology. 10(7). 1505–1516. 91 indexed citations

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Lavazec, Catherine & Catherine Bourgouin. (2008). Mosquito-based transmission blocking vaccines for interrupting Plasmodium development. Microbes and Infection. 10(8). 845–849. 41 indexed citations

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Simon, Nina, et al.. (2007). PfCCp proteins of Plasmodium falciparum: Gametocyte-specific expression and role in complement-mediated inhibition of exflagellation. International Journal for Parasitology. 38(3-4). 327–340. 64 indexed citations

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Lavazec, Catherine, Sohini Sanyal, & Thomas J. Templeton. (2007). Expression switching in the stevor and Pfmc‐2TM superfamilies in Plasmodium falciparum. Molecular Microbiology. 64(6). 1621–1634. 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lavazec, Catherine, Sohini Sanyal, & Thomas J. Templeton. (2006). Hypervariability within the Rifin, Stevor and Pfmc-2TM superfamilies in Plasmodium falciparum. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(22). 6696–6707. 70 indexed citations

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Lavazec, Catherine, Sarah Bonnet, Isabelle Thiéry, Bertrand Boisson, & Catherine Bourgouin. (2005). cpbAg1 encodes an active carboxypeptidase B expressed in the midgut of Anopheles gambiae. Insect Molecular Biology. 14(2). 163–174. 25 indexed citations

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