Christopher H. Heath

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Christopher H. Heath is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Clinical Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher H. Heath has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Infectious Diseases, 34 papers in Epidemiology and 10 papers in Clinical Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Christopher H. Heath's work include Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (26 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (20 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (10 papers). Christopher H. Heath is often cited by papers focused on Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (26 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (20 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (10 papers). Christopher H. Heath collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and New Zealand. Christopher H. Heath's co-authors include Barbara E. Wyslouzil, Tania C. Sorrell, Monica A. Slavin, David Looke, David I. Grove, R. Strey, Mona Schousboe, A Chereshsky, Andreas F. Widmer and Thomas M. File and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, The Journal of Chemical Physics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher H. Heath

62 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Distribution ofLegionellaSpecies and Serogroups Isolated by Culture in Patients with Sporadic Community‐Acquired Legionellosis: An International Collaborative Survey

2002 520 citations Victor L. Yu, Joseph F. Plouffe et al. The Journal of Infectious Diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher H. Heath Australia	32	1.8k	1.7k	701	448	353	63	3.4k
Peter W. M. Hermans Netherlands	59	10.1k 5.8×	7.3k 4.4×	484 0.7×	2.5k 5.5×	37 0.1×	251	14.6k
José Antonio Martínez Spain	36	1.8k 1.0×	774 0.5×	371 0.5×	284 0.6×	20 0.1×	128	4.1k
Simon Goldenberg United Kingdom	25	972 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	98 0.1×	612 1.4×	45 0.1×	90	2.9k
David A. B. Dance United Kingdom	45	6.7k 3.9×	830 0.5×	396 0.6×	403 0.9×	13 0.0×	186	8.2k
John Anderson United States	34	389 0.2×	1.5k 0.9×	499 0.7×	287 0.6×	15 0.0×	202	3.8k
Ingeborg S. Aaberge Norway	31	1.6k 0.9×	282 0.2×	189 0.3×	286 0.6×	37 0.1×	95	2.8k
Henrik Nielsen Denmark	47	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	397 0.6×	1.8k 4.1×	5 0.0×	254	7.0k
Edit Urbán Hungary	39	1.1k 0.7×	982 0.6×	469 0.7×	954 2.1×	8 0.0×	179	4.8k
Christoph Aebi Switzerland	40	2.4k 1.4×	931 0.6×	192 0.3×	367 0.8×	8 0.0×	168	4.3k
Won Sup Oh South Korea	26	641 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	141 0.2×	576 1.3×	27 0.1×	104	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher H. Heath

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Shi, Z., Christopher H. Heath, N. Appathurai, et al.. (2025). Structural Phase Separation and Enhanced Superconductivity in La _1.875 Ba _0.125 CuO ₄ Under Uniaxial Strain. Advanced Materials. 38(2). e09308–e09308. 1 indexed citations

Chang, Christina C., Victoria Hall, C Cooper, et al.. (2021). Consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and management of cryptococcosis and rare yeast infections in the haematology/oncology setting, 2021. Internal Medicine Journal. 51(S7). 118–142. 24 indexed citations

Heath, Christopher H., et al.. (2019). Melioidosis: An updated review. Australian Journal of General Practice. 48(5). 327–332. 41 indexed citations

Halliday, Catriona, Sharon C.‐A. Chen, Sarah Kidd, et al.. (2016). Antifungal susceptibilities of non-Aspergillus filamentous fungi causing invasive infection in Australia: support for current antifungal guideline recommendations. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 48(4). 453–458. 28 indexed citations

Boan, Peter, Hui-Leen Tan, Julie Pearson, et al.. (2015). Epidemiological, clinical, outcome and antibiotic susceptibility differences between PVL positive and PVL negative Staphylococcus aureus infections in Western Australia: a case control study. BMC Infectious Diseases. 15(1). 10–10. 29 indexed citations

Christiansen, Keryn, et al.. (2014). Increased EMRSA-15 health-care worker colonization demonstrated in retrospective review of EMRSA hospital outbreaks. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 3(1). 7–7. 7 indexed citations

Ingram, Paul R., et al.. (2014). Cutaneous mucormycosis and motor vehicle accidents: Findings from an Australian case series. Medical Mycology. 52(8). 819–825. 36 indexed citations

Ingram, Paul R., et al.. (2013). Risk factors for nephrotoxicity in patients receiving outpatient continuous infusions of vancomycin in an Australian tertiary hospital. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 69(3). 805–808. 20 indexed citations

Slavin, Monica A., Christopher H. Heath, Quoc Nguyen, et al.. (2012). Hospital costs, length of stay and mortality attributable to invasive scedosporiosis in haematology patients. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 67(9). 2274–2282. 13 indexed citations

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Inglis, Timothy J. J., Lyn C. O'Reilly, Adam J. Merritt, Avram Levy, & Christopher H. Heath. (2011). The Aftermath of the Western Australian Melioidosis Outbreak. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 84(6). 851–857. 18 indexed citations

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Heath, Christopher H., et al.. (2009). Burn wounds infected by contaminated water: Case reports, review of the literature and recommendations for treatment. Burns. 36(1). 9–22. 46 indexed citations

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Bates, Timothy R., et al.. (2009). Extensive cutaneous Mycobacterium abscessus infection due to contaminated insulin delivery system. QJM. 102(12). 881–884. 6 indexed citations

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Wehrhahn, Michael C., Christopher H. Heath, & Wai Yie Leong. (2009). A cold case of meningococcal meningitis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 9(7). 454–454. 1 indexed citations

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Heath, Christopher H., Monica A. Slavin, Tania C. Sorrell, et al.. (2009). Population-based surveillance for scedosporiosis in Australia: epidemiology, disease manifestations and emergence of Scedosporium aurantiacum infection. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 15(7). 689–693. 94 indexed citations

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Palladino, Silvano, et al.. (2003). A quantitative LightCycler PCR to detect Streptococcus pneumoniae in blood and CSF. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 47(2). 407–414. 55 indexed citations

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Heath, Christopher H., et al.. (2003). A review of the Royal Perth Hospital Bali experience: an infection control perspective. PubMed. 8(2). 43–54. 17 indexed citations

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Heath, Christopher H., et al.. (2003). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in Western Australian teaching hospitals, 1997–1999: risk factors, outcomes and implications for management. Journal of Hospital Infection. 56(1). 22–28. 26 indexed citations

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Yu, Victor L., Joseph F. Plouffe, Maddalena Castellani Pastoris, et al.. (2002). Distribution ofLegionellaSpecies and Serogroups Isolated by Culture in Patients with Sporadic Community‐Acquired Legionellosis: An International Collaborative Survey. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 186(1). 127–128. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dogra, Gursharan, Brian Hutchison, Ashley Irish, et al.. (2002). Prevention of Tunneled Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Infections Using Catheter-Restricted Filling with Gentamicin and Citrate. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 13(8). 2133–2139. 215 indexed citations

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Murray, Ronan J., S. Mallal, Christopher H. Heath, & Martyn A. French. (2001). Cerebral Mycobacterium avium Infection in an HIV-Infected Patient Following Immune Reconstitution and Cessation of Therapy for Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 20(3). 199–201. 35 indexed citations

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