Cédric Lood

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Cédric Lood is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cédric Lood has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Cédric Lood's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (12 papers). Cédric Lood is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (27 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Microbial infections and disease research (12 papers). Cédric Lood collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and France. Cédric Lood's co-authors include Rob Lavigne, Vera van Noort, Zuzanna Drulis‐Kawa, Jeroen Wagemans, Yves Briers, René De Mot, Léa Girard, Jean‐Paul Pirnay, Hassan Rokni‐Zadeh and Maya Merabishvili and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Cédric Lood

40 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Combination of pre-adapted bacteriophage therapy and anti... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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  1. Combination of pre-adapted bacteriophage therapy and antibiotics for treatment of fracture-related infection due to pandrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
    2022 194 citations Cédric Lood, Vera van Noort et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cédric Lood Belgium 18 798 506 292 231 204 42 1.1k
Grażyna Majkowska-Skrobek Poland 18 1.2k 1.5× 687 1.4× 490 1.7× 176 0.8× 314 1.5× 26 1.5k
William Cenens Belgium 15 754 0.9× 578 1.1× 235 0.8× 192 0.8× 168 0.8× 22 1.1k
Austen Terwilliger United States 14 490 0.6× 353 0.7× 196 0.7× 108 0.5× 139 0.7× 28 907
Nuria Quiles‐Puchalt Spain 15 780 1.0× 569 1.1× 189 0.6× 131 0.6× 94 0.5× 20 1.0k
Marina Tediashvili Georgia 13 594 0.7× 332 0.7× 228 0.8× 240 1.0× 81 0.4× 33 964
Patrick A. de Jonge Netherlands 7 714 0.9× 433 0.9× 188 0.6× 127 0.5× 47 0.2× 14 865
Theron Hamilton United States 14 517 0.6× 272 0.5× 244 0.8× 125 0.5× 136 0.7× 15 739
Zachary J. Storms Canada 10 690 0.9× 325 0.6× 195 0.7× 144 0.6× 69 0.3× 11 793
Sylwia Bloch Poland 16 688 0.9× 361 0.7× 201 0.7× 86 0.4× 75 0.4× 43 915
Hans Gerstmans Belgium 11 537 0.7× 361 0.7× 187 0.6× 81 0.4× 81 0.4× 16 713

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cédric Lood

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All Works

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MacLean, R. Craig, Cédric Lood, & Rachel M. Wheatley. (2025). Chromosomal capture of beneficial genes drives plasmids toward ecological redundancy. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 3 indexed citations
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Bartell, Jennifer, Cédric Lood, Rasmus L. Marvig, et al.. (2025). Pseudomonas aeruginosa maintains an inducible array of novel and diverse prophages over lengthy persistence in cystic fibrosis lungs. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 372. 2 indexed citations
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Schön, Max Emil, Cédric Lood, Lingyi Wu, et al.. (2024). Seasonal dynamics and diversity of Antarctic marine viruses reveal a novel viral seascape. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9192–9192. 10 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, et al.. (2024). Complete genome sequences of two Leuconostoc carnosum strains: 4010 and AMS1. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(3). e0096123–e0096123. 1 indexed citations
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Turchi, Barbara, Jeroen Wagemans, Beatrice Torracca, et al.. (2024). Isolation and characterization of novel Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophage Hesat from dairy origin. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 108(1). 299–299. 5 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, Alfred Fillol-Salom, William Cenens, et al.. (2024). Phage-host co-evolution has led to distinct generalized transduction strategies. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(13). 7780–7791. 5 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, et al.. (2023). Human Complement Inhibits Myophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Viruses. 15(11). 2211–2211. 7 indexed citations
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Kaszowska, Marta, Grażyna Majkowska-Skrobek, Cédric Lood, et al.. (2021). The Mutation in wbaP cps Gene Cluster Selected by Phage-Borne Depolymerase Abolishes Capsule Production and Diminishes the Virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniae. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(21). 11562–11562. 29 indexed citations
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Dutilh, Bas E., Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, et al.. (2021). Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses. Current Opinion in Virology. 51. 207–215. 35 indexed citations
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Merabishvili, Maya, Jeroen Wagemans, Cédric Lood, et al.. (2021). In Vitro Evaluation of the Therapeutic Potential of Phage VA7 against Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis Infection. Viruses. 13(10). 2044–2044. 5 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, Pieter‐Jan Haas, Vera van Noort, & Rob Lavigne. (2021). Shopping for phages? Unpacking design rules for therapeutic phage cocktails. Current Opinion in Virology. 52. 236–243. 25 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, Dimitri Boeckaerts, Michiel Stock, et al.. (2021). Digital phagograms: predicting phage infectivity through a multilayer machine learning approach. Current Opinion in Virology. 52. 174–181. 29 indexed citations
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Onsea, Jolien, Saartje Uyttebroek, Jeroen Wagemans, et al.. (2021). Bacteriophage Therapy for Difficult-to-Treat Infections: The Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Phage Task Force (The PHAGEFORCE Study Protocol). Viruses. 13(8). 1543–1543. 32 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, Charlotte Peeters, Quentin Lamy-Besnier, et al.. (2021). Genomics of an endemic cystic fibrosis Burkholderia multivorans strain reveals low within-patient evolution but high between-patient diversity. PLoS Pathogens. 17(3). e1009418–e1009418. 16 indexed citations
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Lood, Cédric, Katarzyna Danis‐Wlodarczyk, Bob Blasdel, et al.. (2020). Integrative omics analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virus PA5oct highlights the molecular complexity of jumbo phages. Environmental Microbiology. 22(6). 2165–2181. 38 indexed citations
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Boon, Maarten, Dominique Holtappels, Cédric Lood, Vera van Noort, & Rob Lavigne. (2020). Host Range Expansion of Pseudomonas Virus LUZ7 Is Driven by a Conserved Tail Fiber Mutation. PubMed. 1(2). 87–90. 19 indexed citations
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Botelho, João, Cédric Lood, Sally R. Partridge, et al.. (2019). Combining sequencing approaches to fully resolve a carbapenemase-encoding megaplasmid in a Pseudomonas shirazica clinical strain. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 8(1). 1186–1194. 13 indexed citations
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Thiry, Damien, Virginie Passet, Katarzyna Danis‐Wlodarczyk, et al.. (2019). New Bacteriophages against Emerging Lineages ST23 and ST258 of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Efficacy Assessment in Galleria mellonella Larvae. Viruses. 11(5). 411–411. 38 indexed citations

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