Fernanda C. Lessa

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Fernanda C. Lessa is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernanda C. Lessa has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Epidemiology, 42 papers in Infectious Diseases and 18 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Recurrent topics in Fernanda C. Lessa's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (30 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (24 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (22 papers). Fernanda C. Lessa is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (30 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (24 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (22 papers). Fernanda C. Lessa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Mozambique. Fernanda C. Lessa's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Fernanda C. Lessa

84 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernanda C. Lessa United States	29	3.6k	2.8k	830	775	592	91	4.8k
Carolyn V. Gould United States	26	3.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.2×	924 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	562 0.9×	64	5.7k
Thomas J. Sandora United States	32	3.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	618 1.0×	110	5.8k
Wendy Bamberg United States	16	3.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	760 1.3×	28	5.9k
Stuart H. Cohen United States	31	4.8k 1.3×	3.6k 1.3×	970 1.2×	915 1.2×	801 1.4×	110	6.4k
Frédéric Barbut France	42	5.0k 1.4×	3.0k 1.1×	953 1.1×	875 1.1×	725 1.2×	164	5.8k
Lisa G. Winston United States	20	3.5k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	813 1.0×	868 1.1×	605 1.0×	47	4.1k
Louis Valiquette Canada	31	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	525 0.6×	656 0.8×	268 0.5×	110	3.9k
B. Coignard France	30	2.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	670 0.8×	438 0.6×	383 0.6×	79	4.2k
Anne–Marie Bourgault Canada	26	2.9k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	589 0.7×	645 0.8×	360 0.6×	60	3.9k
Maury E. Mulligan United States	36	4.4k 1.2×	2.6k 0.9×	870 1.0×	727 0.9×	840 1.4×	65	5.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lessa, Fernanda C., et al.. (2025). The Case for Strengthening Infection Prevention and Control in Primary Care. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 232(Supplement_2). S140–S144.

Magleby, Reed, Janice Caoili, Jason Caravas, et al.. (2025). Utilizing Whole Genome Sequencing to Investigate a COVID-19 Cluster Among Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Care Facility in the Philippines: Insights and Implications for Infection Prevention and Control. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 80(6). 1262–1268.

Carvalho, Maria da Glória, et al.. (2023). Nasopharyngeal colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children and adults before the introduction of the 10-valent conjugate vaccine, Paraguay. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0280722–e0280722. 4 indexed citations

Allel, Kasim, Lina Rivas, Pamela Rojas, et al.. (2023). Antibiotic Consumption During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Emergence of Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Lineages Among Inpatients in a Chilean Hospital: A Time-Series Study and Phylogenomic Analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 77(Supplement_1). S20–S28. 20 indexed citations

Fabre, Valeria, et al.. (2022). Antimicrobial stewardship in Latin America: Past, present, and future. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). e68–e68. 17 indexed citations

Huong, Vu Thi Lan, Raph L Hamers, Ralalicia Limato, et al.. (2022). Identifying context-specific domains for assessing antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Asia: protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open. 12(9). e061286–e061286.

Lessa, Fernanda C., et al.. (2021). Impact of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Nasopharyngeal Carriage Rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Rural Community in the Dominican Republic. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 224(Supplement_3). S237–S247. 4 indexed citations

Coutinho, Renato Mendes, Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti, Marcelo Eduardo Borges, et al.. (2021). Repository of the "Model-based estimation of transmissibility and reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 P.1 variant" code. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Cohen, Jessica, Nicole Gregoricus, Monica M. Farley, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of viral co-infections among patients with community-associated Clostridioides difficile infection. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0240549–e0240549. 2 indexed citations

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Massora, Sérgio, Fernanda C. Lessa, Benild Moiane, et al.. (2019). Invasive disease potential of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes before and after 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in a rural area, southern Mozambique. Vaccine. 37(51). 7470–7477. 6 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C. & Marcos Bosi Ferraz. (2017). Health technology assessment: the process in Brazil.. PubMed. 41. e25–e25. 7 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C., et al.. (2016). Prontuário Eletrônico e Gerenciamento de caso em Ambulatório de Psiquiatria. Journal of Health Informatics. 8(3). 1 indexed citations

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Baggs, James, Kimberly Yousey‐Hindes, Elizabeth Dodds Ashley, et al.. (2015). Identification of population at risk for future Clostridium difficile infection following hospital discharge to be targeted for vaccine trials. Vaccine. 33(46). 6241–6249. 10 indexed citations

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See, Isaac, Yi Mu, Jessica Cohen, et al.. (2014). NAP1 Strain Type Predicts Outcomes From Clostridium difficile Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 58(10). 1394–1400. 135 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C.. (2013). Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: How real is it?. Anaerobe. 24. 121–123. 40 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C., Yi Mu, John Davies, et al.. (2010). Comparison of Incidence of Bloodstream Infection with Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus between England and United States, 2006–2007. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 51(8). 925–928. 28 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C., Jonathan R. Edwards, Scott K. Fridkin, et al.. (2009). Trends in Incidence of Late-Onset Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 28(7). 577–581. 63 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C., P. L. Gould, Dean D. Erdman, et al.. (2009). Health Care Transmission of a Newly Emergent Adenovirus Serotype in Health Care Personnel at a Military Hospital in Texas, 2007. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 200(11). 1759–1765. 28 indexed citations

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Kallen, Alexander J., Angela Thompson, Polly Ristaino, et al.. (2009). Complete Restriction of Fluoroquinolone Use to Control an Outbreak ofClostridium difficileInfection at a Community Hospital. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 30(3). 264–272. 69 indexed citations

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Lessa, Fernanda C.. (2008). Citotoxicidade direta e transdentinária da clorexidina sobre células odontoblastóides MDPC-23 e análise de sua atividade antimicrobiana in vitro. Acervo Digital da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Universidade Estadual Paulista).

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