Fernanda C. Lessa

6.6k citations
91 papers · 4.8k · 1 hit paper · h-index 29

Impact in

Papers in

  • Epidemiology 52
    • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections 30
    • Respiratory viral infections research 24
    • Microscopic Colitis 17
  • Infectious Diseases 42
    • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 22
    • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus 13
Co-authors
L. Clifford McDonald (15 shared papers)Ghinwa Dumyati (18 shared papers)Dale N. Gerding (7 shared papers)Monica M. Farley (16 shared papers)Zintars G. Beldavs (11 shared papers)Stacy Holzbauer (10 shared papers)Lisa G. Winston (9 shared papers)Yi Mu (12 shared papers)
Journals
Clinical Infectious Diseases (16 papers)Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (8 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (7 papers)Open Forum Infectious Diseases (7 papers)Vaccine (5 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesBrazilMozambique

In The Last Decade

Fernanda C. Lessa

84 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States 2015 · 2.0k citations
2.0k0+3+7Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k
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  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2015 New England Journal of Medicine

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Fernanda C. Lessa
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  • Infectious Diseases 3.6k
  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 337
  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 830
  • Epidemiology 2.8k
  • Gastroenterology 373
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Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States
New England Journal of Medicine ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Yi Mu, Wendy Bamberg, Zintars G. Beldavs, Ghinwa Dumyati, John R. Dunn, Monica M. Farley, Stacy Holzbauer, James Meek, Erin C. Phipps, Lucy Wilson, Lisa G. Winston, Jessica Cohen, Brandi Limbago, Scott K. Fridkin, Dale N. Gerding, L. Clifford McDonald
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Current Status of Clostridium difficile Infection Epidemiology
Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Carolyn V. Gould, L. Clifford McDonald
2012325
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Epidemiology of Community-AssociatedClostridium difficileInfection, 2009 Through 2011
JAMA Internal Medicine ·Amit S. Chitnis, Stacy Holzbauer, Ruth Belflower, Lisa G. Winston, Wendy Bamberg, Carol Lyons, Monica M. Farley, Ghinwa Dumyati, Lucy Wilson, Zintars G. Beldavs, John R. Dunn, L. Hannah Gould, Duncan MacCannell, Dale N. Gerding, L. Clifford McDonald, Fernanda C. Lessa
2013319
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NAP1 Strain Type Predicts Outcomes From Clostridium difficile Infection
Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Isaac See, Yi Mu, Jessica Cohen, Zintars G. Beldavs, Lisa G. Winston, Ghinwa Dumyati, Stacy Holzbauer, Dori B. Reissman, Monica M. Farley, Carol A. Lyons, Helen Johnston, Erin C. Phipps, Rebecca Perlmutter, Lydia Anderson, Dale N. Gerding, Fernanda C. Lessa
2014135
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Trends in Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections
PEDIATRICS ·Martha Iwamoto, Yi Mu, Ruth Lynfield, Sandra N. Bulens, Joelle Nadle, Deborah Aragon, Susan Petit, Susan M. Ray, Lee H. Harrison, Ghinwa Dumyati, John M. Townes, William Schaffner, Rachel Gorwitz, Fernanda C. Lessa
201393
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Clostridium difficile Infection Among Children Across Diverse US Geographic Locations
PEDIATRICS ·Joyanna Wendt, Jessica Cohen, Yi Mu, Ghinwa Dumyati, John R. Dunn, Stacy Holzbauer, Lisa G. Winston, Helen Johnston, James Meek, Monica M. Farley, Lucy Wilson, Erin C. Phipps, Zintars G. Beldavs, Dale N. Gerding, L. Clifford McDonald, Carolyn V. Gould, Fernanda C. Lessa
201489
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Effect of Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing on Population-Based Incidence Rates of Clostridium difficile Infection
Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Carolyn V. Gould, Jonathan R. Edwards, Jessica Cohen, Wendy Bamberg, Leigh Anne Clark, Monica M. Farley, Helen Johnston, Joelle Nadle, Lisa G. Winston, Dale N. Gerding, L. Clifford McDonald, Fernanda C. Lessa, Zintars G. Beldavs, Sammy A. Hanna, Gary E. Hollick, Stacy Holzbauer, Carol A. Lyons, Erin C. Phipps, Lucy Wilson
201387
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Model-based estimation of transmissibility and reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 P.1 variant
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Renato Mendes Coutinho, Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti, Leonardo Souto Ferreira, Marcelo Eduardo Borges, Rafael Lopes, Otavio Canton, Tatiana Pineda Portella, Silas Poloni, Caroline Franco, Mateusz M. Pluciński, Fernanda C. Lessa, Antônio Augusto Moura da Sílva, R. A. Kraenkel, Maria Amélia de Sousa Mascena Veras, Paulo Inácio Prado
202182
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National surveillance of health care–associated infections in Egypt: Developing a sustainable program in a resource-limited country
American Journal of Infection Control ·Maha Talaat, Mona El-Shokry, Jehan El-Kholy, Ghada Ismail, Sara Kotb, Soad Hafez, Ehab Attia, Fernanda C. Lessa
201677
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Complete Restriction of Fluoroquinolone Use to Control an Outbreak ofClostridium difficileInfection at a Community Hospital
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Alexander J. Kallen, Angela Thompson, Polly Ristaino, Leigh Chapman, Ainsley Nicholson, Bich-Thuy Sim, Fernanda C. Lessa, Umid Sharapov, Elaine Fadden, Richard Boehler, Carolyn Gould, Brandi Limbago, David Blythe, L. Clifford McDonald
200969
11
Device-Associated Infections among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: Incidence and Associated Pathogens Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2006–2008
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Susan N. Hocevar, Jonathan R. Edwards, Teresa Horan, Gloria C. Morrell, Martha Iwamoto, Fernanda C. Lessa
201264
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Trends in Incidence of Late-Onset Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Jonathan R. Edwards, Scott K. Fridkin, Fred C. Tenover, Teresa Horan, Rachel Gorwitz
200963
13
Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Patients on Chronic Dialysis in the United States, 2005-2011
Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Duc B. Nguyen, Fernanda C. Lessa, Ruth Belflower, Yi Mu, Matthew E. Wise, Joelle Nadle, Wendy Bamberg, Susan Petit, Susan M. Ray, Lee H. Harrison, Ruth Lynfield, Ghinwa Dumyati, Jamie Thompson, William Schaffner, Priti R. Patel, (unknown)
201363
14
The Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection Inside and Outside Health Care Institutions
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America ·Dale N. Gerding, Fernanda C. Lessa
201556
15
Trends in Candida Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Among NICUs, 1999–2009
PEDIATRICS ·Amit S. Chitnis, Shelley S. Magill, Jonathan R. Edwards, Tom Chiller, Scott K. Fridkin, Fernanda C. Lessa
201253
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Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection
Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Raymund Dantes, Yi Mu, Lauri A. Hicks, Jessica Cohen, Wendy Bamberg, Zintars G. Beldavs, Ghinwa Dumyati, Monica M. Farley, Stacy Holzbauer, James Meek, Erin C. Phipps, Lucy Wilson, Lisa G. Winston, L. Clifford McDonald, Fernanda C. Lessa
201552
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Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities in Monroe County, New York
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·D.D. Pawar, Rebecca Tsay, Deborah Nelson, Meena Kumari Elumalai, Fernanda C. Lessa, L. Clifford McDonald, Ghinwa Dumyati
201247
18
Streptococcus infantis, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis Strains With Highly Similar cps5 Loci and Antigenic Relatedness to Serotype 5 Pneumococci
Frontiers in Microbiology ·Fabiana Cristina Pimenta, Robert E. Gertz, Sohee Park, Ellie Kim, Iaci Moura, Jennifer Milucky, Nadine Rouphael, Monica M. Farley, Lee H. Harrison, Nancy M. Bennett, Godfrey Bigogo, Daniel R. Feikin, Robert F. Breiman, Fernanda C. Lessa, Cynthia G. Whitney, Gowrisankar Rajam, Jarad Schiffer, Maria da Glória Carvalho, Bernard Beall
201945
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Twenty Years of Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
Emerging infectious diseases ·Gayle Langley, William Schaffner, Monica M. Farley, Ruth Lynfield, Nancy M. Bennett, Arthur Reingold, Ann Thomas, Lee H. Harrison, Megin Nichols, Susan Petit, Lisa Miller, Matthew R. Moore, Stephanie J. Schrag, Fernanda C. Lessa, Tami H. Skoff, Jessica R. MacNeil, Elizabeth C. Briere, Emily Weston, Chris Van Beneden
201545
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Determinants of Clostridium difficile Infection Incidence Across Diverse United States Geographic Locations
Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Yi Mu, Lisa G. Winston, Ghinwa Dumyati, Monica M. Farley, Zintars G. Beldavs, Kelly R. Kast, Stacy Holzbauer, James Meek, Jessica Cohen, L. Clifford McDonald, Scott K. Fridkin
201441

About Fernanda C. Lessa

Fernanda C. Lessa is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Microbiology, having authored 91 papers that have together received 4.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (30 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (24 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (22 papers), Nosocomial Infections in ICU (18 papers), Microscopic Colitis (17 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (13 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (13 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (3.6k citations), Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (337 citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (830 citations), Epidemiology (2.8k citations) and Gastroenterology (373 citations). Fernanda C. Lessa has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Mozambique. Frequent co-authors include L. Clifford McDonald, Ghinwa Dumyati, Dale N. Gerding, Monica M. Farley, Zintars G. Beldavs, Stacy Holzbauer, Lisa G. Winston, Yi Mu, Scott K. Fridkin and Lucy Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Open Forum Infectious Diseases and Vaccine.

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