Christopher A. Desjardins

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher A. Desjardins is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher A. Desjardins has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Infectious Diseases and 18 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Christopher A. Desjardins's work include Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (9 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (8 papers). Christopher A. Desjardins is often cited by papers focused on Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (9 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (8 papers). Christopher A. Desjardins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Christopher A. Desjardins's co-authors include Christina A. Cuomo, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, Brendan R. Jackson, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, Joveria Farooqi, Rana Jawad Asghar, Anuradha Chowdhary, Rindidzani E. Magobo, Kizee A. Etienne and Kauser Jabeen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher A. Desjardins

51 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses
    2016 1.1k citations Shawn R. Lockhart, Kizee A. Etienne et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher A. Desjardins United States 29 2.0k 1.6k 1.1k 678 580 51 3.8k
Luciano Polonelli Italy 40 1.8k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 2.0k 1.8× 320 0.5× 980 1.7× 202 5.5k
Seán Doyle Ireland 40 1.2k 0.6× 422 0.3× 1.6k 1.4× 310 0.5× 901 1.6× 130 4.5k
Claudia Cafarchia Italy 35 806 0.4× 2.0k 1.3× 427 0.4× 644 0.9× 504 0.9× 121 3.5k
Mandy Sanders United Kingdom 37 707 0.4× 1.8k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 446 0.7× 543 0.9× 65 5.3k
Thomas D. Edlind United States 37 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 103 0.2× 653 1.1× 77 4.1k
Francesca Mancianti Italy 35 723 0.4× 1.7k 1.1× 236 0.2× 486 0.7× 517 0.9× 212 4.0k
Maria Helena S. Goldman Brazil 36 1.2k 0.6× 862 0.5× 2.4k 2.2× 248 0.4× 1.5k 2.5× 119 4.2k
W Presber Germany 31 528 0.3× 2.5k 1.6× 440 0.4× 251 0.4× 517 0.9× 77 3.9k
Vishnu Chaturvedi United States 42 3.6k 1.8× 3.3k 2.1× 820 0.8× 97 0.1× 820 1.4× 124 5.2k
Óscar Zaragoza Spain 47 4.5k 2.2× 4.3k 2.8× 1.4k 1.3× 223 0.3× 1.2k 2.1× 124 6.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Young, Mark, Timothy J. Straub, Colin J. Worby, et al.. (2024). Distinct Escherichia coli transcriptional profiles in the guts of recurrent UTI sufferers revealed by pangenome hybrid selection. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9466–9466. 3 indexed citations
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Straub, Timothy J., Wen‐Chi Chou, Abigail L. Manson, et al.. (2021). Limited effects of long-term daily cranberry consumption on the gut microbiome in a placebo-controlled study of women with recurrent urinary tract infections. BMC Microbiology. 21(1). 53–53. 27 indexed citations
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Yu, Chen-Hsin Albert, Yuan Chen, Christopher A. Desjardins, et al.. (2019). Landscape of gene expression variation of natural isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans in response to biologically relevant stresses. Microbial Genomics. 6(1). 24 indexed citations
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Reddy, Kirthi C., Tal Dror, Ryan Underwood, et al.. (2019). Antagonistic paralogs control a switch between growth and pathogen resistance in C. elegans. PLoS Pathogens. 15(1). e1007528–e1007528. 67 indexed citations
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Cohen, Keira A., Abigail L. Manson, Thomas Abeel, et al.. (2019). Extensive global movement of multidrug-resistantM. tuberculosisstrains revealed by whole-genome analysis. Thorax. 74(9). 882–889. 20 indexed citations
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Cohen, Keira A., Abigail L. Manson, Christopher A. Desjardins, Thomas Abeel, & Ashlee M. Earl. (2019). Deciphering drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using whole-genome sequencing: progress, promise, and challenges. Genome Medicine. 11(1). 45–45. 94 indexed citations
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Mukaremera, Liliane, Radamés J. B. Cordero, Carolina Coelho, et al.. (2018). Titan cells formation in Cryptococcus neoformans is finely tuned by environmental conditions and modulated by positive and negative genetic regulators. PLoS Pathogens. 14(5). e1006982–e1006982. 97 indexed citations
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Manson, Abigail L., Christopher A. Desjardins, Alejandro Pironti, et al.. (2018). SynerClust: a highly scalable, synteny-aware orthologue clustering tool. Microbial Genomics. 4(11). 12 indexed citations
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Henn, Matthew R., Christopher B. Ford, Edward R. O’Brien, et al.. (2018). 621. Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection with SER-109 Increases the Concentration of Secondary Bile Acids in a Dose-Dependent Manner. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 5(suppl_1). S226–S227. 1 indexed citations
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Desjardins, Christopher A., Charles Giamberardino, Sean M. Sykes, et al.. (2017). Population genomics and the evolution of virulence in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Genome Research. 27(7). 1207–1219. 103 indexed citations
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Muñoz, José F., Rhys A. Farrer, Christopher A. Desjardins, et al.. (2016). Genome Diversity, Recombination, and Virulence across the Major Lineages of Paracoccidioides. mSphere. 1(5). 79 indexed citations
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Lockhart, Shawn R., Kizee A. Etienne, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, et al.. (2016). Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 64(2). 134–140. 1145 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grant, Sarah Schmidt, Samantha Wellington, Tomohiko Kawate, et al.. (2016). Baeyer-Villiger Monooxygenases EthA and MymA Are Required for Activation of Replicating and Non-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis Inhibitors. Cell chemical biology. 23(6). 666–677. 39 indexed citations
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Desjardins, Christopher A., Keira A. Cohen, Vanisha Munsamy, et al.. (2016). Genomic and functional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains implicate ald in D-cycloserine resistance. Nature Genetics. 48(5). 544–551. 111 indexed citations
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Farrer, Rhys A., Christopher A. Desjardins, Sharadha Sakthikumar, et al.. (2015). Genome Evolution and Innovation across the Four Major Lineages of Cryptococcus gattii. mBio. 6(5). e00868–15. 68 indexed citations
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Desjardins, Christopher A., Neil D. Sanscrainte, Jonathan M. Goldberg, et al.. (2015). Contrasting host–pathogen interactions and genome evolution in two generalist and specialist microsporidian pathogens of mosquitoes. Nature Communications. 6(1). 91 indexed citations
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Cuomo, Christina A., Christopher A. Desjardins, Malina A. Bakowski, et al.. (2012). Microsporidian genome analysis reveals evolutionary strategies for obligate intracellular growth. Genome Research. 22(12). 2478–2488. 203 indexed citations
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Stahlhut, Julie K., Christopher A. Desjardins, Michael E. Clark, et al.. (2010). The mushroom habitat as an ecological arena for global exchange ofWolbachia. Molecular Ecology. 19(9). 1940–1952. 98 indexed citations
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Baldo, Laura, Christopher A. Desjardins, Jacob A. Russell, Julie K. Stahlhut, & John H. Werren. (2010). Accelerated microevolution in an outer membrane protein (OMP) of the intracellular bacteria Wolbachia. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 48–48. 43 indexed citations
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Desjardins, Christopher A., Jonathan A. Eisen, & Vishvanath Nene. (2005). New evolutionary frontiers from unusual virus genomes.. Genome Biology. 6(3). 212–212. 18 indexed citations

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