Dan Oţelea

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Dan Oţelea is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Oţelea has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Infectious Diseases, 29 papers in Epidemiology and 20 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Dan Oţelea's work include HIV Research and Treatment (19 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (13 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (9 papers). Dan Oţelea is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (19 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (13 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (9 papers). Dan Oţelea collaborates with scholars based in Romania, Greece and France. Dan Oţelea's co-authors include Simona Paraschiv, R Crainic, Daniel R. Kuritzkes, Robert W. Shafer, Michael R. Jordan, Rami Kantor, Jonathan Schapiro, Ricardo Camacho, Deenan Pillay and Anne–Mieke Vandamme and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Dan Oţelea

59 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Drug Resistance Mutations for Surveillance of Transmitted HIV-1 Drug-Resistance: 2009 Update

2009 731 citations Dan Oţelea et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Oţelea Romania	18	1.2k	868	450	227	192	64	1.6k
Kok Keng Tee Malaysia	23	962 0.8×	622 0.7×	609 1.4×	217 1.0×	321 1.7×	103	1.7k
Nguyen Vu Trung Vietnam	20	384 0.3×	63 0.1×	282 0.6×	42 0.2×	93 0.5×	44	989
Kathleen A. Stellrecht United States	19	809 0.7×	130 0.1×	559 1.2×	88 0.4×	229 1.2×	37	1.5k
Bénédicte Roquebert France	19	951 0.8×	637 0.7×	194 0.4×	6 0.0×	121 0.6×	39	1.2k
Lassana Sangaré Burkina Faso	24	337 0.3×	87 0.1×	984 2.2×	21 0.1×	84 0.4×	92	1.5k
Shiv Lal India	21	755 0.6×	100 0.1×	522 1.2×	50 0.2×	159 0.8×	97	1.6k
Alireza Eshaghi Canada	26	793 0.7×	25 0.0×	1.5k 3.4×	91 0.4×	313 1.6×	62	2.1k
Robin Isaacs United States	25	1.9k 1.5×	1.5k 1.8×	454 1.0×	8 0.0×	469 2.4×	40	2.8k
Nguyễn Thanh Hùng Vietnam	23	1.5k 1.3×	51 0.1×	170 0.4×	129 0.6×	132 0.7×	53	2.3k
Melvyn Smith United Kingdom	21	418 0.3×	169 0.2×	592 1.3×	21 0.1×	102 0.5×	56	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Oţelea

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Gheorghe-Barbu, Irina, Ilda Czobor Barbu, Ioana Cristina Marinaș, et al.. (2025). Emerging Resistance and Virulence Patterns in Salmonella enterica: Insights into Silver Nanoparticles as an Antimicrobial Strategy. Antibiotics. 14(1). 46–46. 1 indexed citations

Surleac, Marius, Oana Săndulescu, Daniela Pițigoi, et al.. (2025). Ongoing measles outbreak in Romania: Clinical investigation and molecular epidemiology performed on whole genome sequences. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0317045–e0317045. 2 indexed citations

Bănică, Leontina, et al.. (2024). Clinical, epidemiological and molecular aspects of patients with mpox in Romania. GERMS. 14(2). 126–135.

Bănică, Leontina, et al.. (2024). Antigenic Divergence from the Seasonal Vaccine of the Influenza Virus Strains Circulating in Romania During Three Successive Seasons (2021–2024). Microorganisms. 12(11). 2363–2363. 2 indexed citations

Surleac, Marius, et al.. (2023). First report of Candida auris in Romania: clinical and molecular aspects. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 12(1). 91–91. 9 indexed citations

Paraschiv, Simona, et al.. (2021). The Predictive Value of Mutation Screening for Anticipating COVID-19 Waves. Pathogens. 10(11). 1464–1464. 4 indexed citations

Gheorghe, Irina, Ilda Czobor Barbu, Marius Surleac, et al.. (2021). Subtypes, resistance and virulence platforms in extended-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Romanian isolates. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 13288–13288. 21 indexed citations

Popa, Laura Ioana, Irina Gheorghe, Ilda Czobor Barbu, et al.. (2021). Multidrug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST101 Clone Survival Chain From Inpatients to Hospital Effluent After Chlorine Treatment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 610296–610296. 43 indexed citations

Bănică, Leontina, Oana Săndulescu, Simona Paraschiv, et al.. (2021). Clinical and molecular epidemiology of influenza viruses from Romanian patients hospitalized during the 2019/20 season. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0258798–e0258798. 18 indexed citations

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Streinu‐Cercel, Adrian, Oana Săndulescu, Dan Oţelea, et al.. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 in Romania – analysis of the first confirmed case and evolution of the pandemic in Romania in the first three months. GERMS. 10(2). 132–134. 15 indexed citations

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Gurzu, Simona, Lorena Elena Meliţ, Adrian Streinu‐Cercel, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 Like Findings in a Fatal Case of Idiopathic Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia Associated With IgA Glomerulonephritis in a 13-Month-Old Child. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 8. 586666–586666. 3 indexed citations

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Săndulescu, Oana, Anca Streinu‐Cercel, Dan Oţelea, et al.. (2019). The 2017–2018 influenza season in Bucharest, Romania: epidemiology and characteristics of hospital admissions for influenza-like illness. BMC Infectious Diseases. 19(1). 967–967. 6 indexed citations

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Săndulescu, Oana, Coralia Bleoţu, Lilia Matei, et al.. (2016). Comparative evaluation of aggressiveness traits in staphylococcal strains from severe infections versus nasopharyngeal carriage. Microbial Pathogenesis. 102. 45–53. 13 indexed citations

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Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen, Oana Săndulescu, Anca Streinu‐Cercel, et al.. (2016). Bacteriophage-driven inhibition of biofilm formation inStaphylococcusstrains from patients attending a Romanian reference center for infectious diseases. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 363(18). fnw193–fnw193. 5 indexed citations

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Oţelea, Dan, et al.. (2016). Broad-range PCR coupled with mass-spectrometry for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance. GERMS. 6(1). 10–13. 3 indexed citations

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Oţelea, Dan, et al.. (2015). Birth outcome in HIV vertically-exposed children in two Romanian centers. GERMS. 5(4). 116–124. 4 indexed citations

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Oţelea, Dan, et al.. (2014). Clinical utility of the GeneXpert assay for the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infections. BMC Infectious Diseases. 14(S7). 5 indexed citations

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Paraschiv, Simona, et al.. (2014). Recent HIV-1 Outbreak Among Intravenous Drug Users in Romania: Evidence for Cocirculation of CRF14_BG and Subtype F1 Strains. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 31(5). 488–495. 36 indexed citations

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Paraschiv, Simona, et al.. (2006). Polymorphisms and resistance mutations in the protease and reverse transcriptase genes of HIV-1 F subtype Romanian strains. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 11(2). 123–128. 22 indexed citations

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Guillot, Sophie, Dan Oţelea, Françis Delpeyroux, & R Crainic. (1994). Point mutations involved in the attenuation/neurovirulence alternation in type 1 and 2 oral polio vaccine strains detected by site-specific polymerase chain reaction. Vaccine. 12(6). 503–507. 38 indexed citations

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