D. Joseph Sexton

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

D. Joseph Sexton is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Joseph Sexton has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Infectious Diseases, 20 papers in Epidemiology and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in D. Joseph Sexton's work include Fungal Infections and Studies (20 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (19 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). D. Joseph Sexton is often cited by papers focused on Fungal Infections and Studies (20 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (19 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers). D. Joseph Sexton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Kenya. D. Joseph Sexton's co-authors include Martín Schuster, Stephen P. Diggle, E. Peter Greenberg, Rory M. Welsh, Kaitlin Forsberg, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, Shawn R. Lockhart, Brendan R. Jackson, Meghan L. Bentz and Meghan Lyman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Annals of Internal Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

D. Joseph Sexton

27 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing: From Evolution to Application

2013 437 citations Martín Schuster, D. Joseph Sexton et al. profile →
Worsening Spread of Candida auris in the United States, 2019 to 2021

2023 150 citations Meghan Lyman, Kaitlin Forsberg et al. profile →

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Diana K. Morales United States

Jinding Chen China

Yafang Zhu China

Natalie Knox Canada

John Varga United States

Willem B. van Leeuwen Netherlands

Jetta J. E. Bijlsma Netherlands

Hilary P. Browne United Kingdom

B. Cherie Millar United Kingdom

Glynis L. Kolling United States

Diana K. Morales United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Joseph Sexton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of D. Joseph Sexton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of D. Joseph Sexton 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 D. Joseph Sexton. D. Joseph Sexton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Jiménez, Adriana, Dipen J. Parekh, Meghan Lyman, et al.. (2025). Improved Consistency of Candida auris Colonization Screening With an Anterior Nares and Hands Composite Sample. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 81(6). e523–e530. 1 indexed citations

Misas, Elizabeth, Lindsay A. Parnell, Malavika Rajeev, et al.. (2025). A benchmark dataset for validating FKS1 mutations in Candida auris. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(8). e0314724–e0314724.

Gade, Lalitha, Elizabeth Misas, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, et al.. (2024). Bimodal distribution of azole susceptibility in Sporothrix brasiliensis isolates in Brazil. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 68(4). e0162023–e0162023. 4 indexed citations

Misas, Elizabeth, Lindsay A. Parnell, D. Joseph Sexton, et al.. (2024). Emergence of zoonotic sporotrichosis in Brazil: a genomic epidemiology study. The Lancet Microbe. 5(3). e282–e290. 15 indexed citations

Lowe, Elijah K., Aleksandr Morgulis, John H. Phan, et al.. (2024). Finding Candida auris in public metagenomic repositories. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0291406–e0291406. 4 indexed citations

Bentz, Meghan L., Natalie S. Nunnally, Shawn R. Lockhart, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of CHROMagar Candida Plus for the detection of C. auris with a panel of 206 fungal isolates and 83 colonization screening skin-swabs. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(4). e0356423–e0356423. 6 indexed citations

Barber, E. M., Bryan Buss, Lalitha Gade, et al.. (2024). Sporotrichosis Cluster in Domestic Cats and Veterinary Technician, Kansas, USA, 2022. Emerging infectious diseases. 30(5). 1053–1055. 4 indexed citations

Smith, Dallas J., Jeremy A.W. Gold, Kaitlin Benedict, et al.. (2023). Public Health Research Priorities for Fungal Diseases: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Save Lives. Journal of Fungi. 9(8). 820–820. 17 indexed citations

Parekh, Dipen J., et al.. (2023). Persistent colonization of Candida auris among inpatients rescreened as part of a weekly surveillance program. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 45(6). 762–765. 6 indexed citations

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Lockhart, Shawn R., Meghan Lyman, & D. Joseph Sexton. (2022). Tools for Detecting a “Superbug”: Updates on Candida auris Testing. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 60(5). e0080821–e0080821. 32 indexed citations

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Bentz, Meghan L., Natalie S. Nunnally, Shawn R. Lockhart, D. Joseph Sexton, & Elizabeth L. Berkow. (2021). Antifungal activity of nikkomycin Z against Candida auris. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 76(6). 1495–1497. 24 indexed citations

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Sexton, D. Joseph, Rory M. Welsh, Meghan L. Bentz, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of nine surface disinfectants against Candida auris using a quantitative disk carrier method: EPA SOP-MB-35. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 41(10). 1219–1221. 23 indexed citations

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Welsh, Rory M., D. Joseph Sexton, Kaitlin Forsberg, Snigdha Vallabhaneni, & Anastasia P. Litvintseva. (2019). Insights into the Unique Nature of the East Asian Clade of the Emerging Pathogenic Yeast Candida auris. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 57(4). 71 indexed citations

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Sexton, D. Joseph, et al.. (2018). Physiological and behavioral response of the Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus , to salinity: implications for estuarine distribution and invasion. PeerJ. 6. e5446–e5446. 15 indexed citations

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Sexton, D. Joseph, Milena Kordalewska, Meghan L. Bentz, et al.. (2018). Direct Detection of Emergent Fungal Pathogen Candida auris in Clinical Skin Swabs by SYBR Green-Based Quantitative PCR Assay. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 56(12). 68 indexed citations

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Schuster, Martín, D. Joseph Sexton, & Burkhard A. Hense. (2017). Why Quorum Sensing Controls Private Goods. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 885–885. 35 indexed citations

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Sexton, D. Joseph & Martín Schuster. (2017). Nutrient limitation determines the fitness of cheaters in bacterial siderophore cooperation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 230–230. 73 indexed citations

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Sexton, D. Joseph, et al.. (2017). Biomimicry of volatile‐based microbial control for managing emerging fungal pathogens. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 124(5). 1024–1031. 8 indexed citations

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Sexton, D. Joseph, et al.. (2017). Pseudomonas protegens Pf‐5 favours self‐produced siderophore over free‐loading in interspecies competition for iron. Environmental Microbiology. 19(9). 3514–3525. 17 indexed citations

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Morgun, Andrey, Amiran Dzutsev, Xiaoxi Dong, et al.. (2015). Uncovering effects of antibiotics on the host and microbiota using transkingdom gene networks. Gut. 64(11). 1732–1743. 228 indexed citations

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