Ingrid Brettar

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Ingrid Brettar is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ingrid Brettar has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Ingrid Brettar's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (37 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers) and Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (16 papers). Ingrid Brettar is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (37 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers) and Legionella and Acanthamoeba research (16 papers). Ingrid Brettar collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Ingrid Brettar's co-authors include Manfred G. Höfle, Richard Christen, Gerhard Rheinheimer, Carla Pruzzo, Luigi Vezzulli, Markus G. Weinbauer, Rita R. Colwell, Philip C. Reid, Karsten Henne and Elisabetta Pezzati and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ingrid Brettar

64 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Climate influence on Vibrio and associated human diseases during the past half-century in the coastal North Atlantic

2016 298 citations Luigi Vezzulli, Manfred G. Höfle et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ingrid Brettar Germany	33	1.7k	1.2k	860	632	533	64	3.3k
Alexander K. T. Kirschner Austria	34	1.3k 0.8×	737 0.6×	752 0.9×	537 0.8×	542 1.0×	122	3.4k
Manfred G. Höfle Germany	41	2.7k 1.7×	2.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.3×	681 1.1×	636 1.2×	90	5.2k
António Correia Portugal	43	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	794 0.9×	533 0.8×	1.6k 3.0×	137	5.5k
Rebecca J. Gast United States	35	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	727 0.8×	282 0.4×	222 0.4×	85	3.8k
Andreas H. Farnleitner Austria	36	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	426 0.5×	653 1.0×	613 1.2×	153	4.4k
Jingrang Lu United States	30	966 0.6×	692 0.6×	414 0.5×	561 0.9×	296 0.6×	78	2.7k
J. Vaun McArthur United States	30	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	348 0.4×	655 1.0×	2.0k 3.7×	94	4.6k
Isabel Henriques Portugal	39	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	813 0.9×	422 0.7×	2.1k 4.0×	143	4.8k
Michael Manefield Australia	21	761 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	445 0.5×	396 0.6×	456 0.9×	57	3.5k
Ryan J. Newton United States	35	3.0k 1.8×	2.1k 1.7×	200 0.2×	519 0.8×	1.2k 2.2×	58	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ingrid Brettar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ingrid Brettar

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Bitar, Dina M., Michael Steinert, Christian Lück, et al.. (2023). Comparative Genomics of Legionella pneumophila Isolates from the West Bank and Germany Support Molecular Epidemiology of Legionnaires’ Disease. Microorganisms. 11(2). 449–449. 3 indexed citations

Bunk, Boyke, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome sequencing of the clinical isolate of Legionella pneumophila ALAW1 from the West Bank allows high-resolution typing and determination of pathogenicity mechanisms. European Clinical Respiratory Journal. 10(1). 2168346–2168346. 2 indexed citations

Sharaby, Yehonatan, Orna Nitzan, Ingrid Brettar, et al.. (2019). Antimicrobial agent susceptibilities of Legionella pneumophila MLVA-8 genotypes. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6138–6138. 13 indexed citations

Sharaby, Yehonatan, et al.. (2019). Quantitative microbial risk assessment of Legionella pneumophila in a drinking water supply system in Israel. The Science of The Total Environment. 671. 404–410. 25 indexed citations

Sharaby, Yehonatan, et al.. (2018). Virulence Traits of Environmental and Clinical Legionella pneumophila Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis (MLVA) Genotypes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(10). 10 indexed citations

Brettar, Ingrid, et al.. (2018). Comparison of in situ sequence type analysis of Legionella pneumophila in respiratory tract secretions and environmental samples of a hospital in East Jerusalem. Epidemiology and Infection. 146(16). 2116–2121. 10 indexed citations

Pereira, Rui P. A., Jörg Peplies, Douglas Mushi, Ingrid Brettar, & Manfred G. Höfle. (2018). Pseudomonas-Specific NGS Assay Provides Insight Into Abundance and Dynamics of Pseudomonas Species Including P. aeruginosa in a Cooling Tower. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1958–1958. 18 indexed citations

Pereira, Rui P. A., Jörg Peplies, Manfred G. Höfle, & Ingrid Brettar. (2017). Bacterial community dynamics in a cooling tower with emphasis on pathogenic bacteria and Legionella species using universal and genus-specific deep sequencing. Water Research. 122. 363–376. 48 indexed citations

Pereira, Rui P. A., Jörg Peplies, Ingrid Brettar, & Manfred G. Höfle. (2017). Development of a genus-specific next generation sequencing approach for sensitive and quantitative determination of the Legionella microbiome in freshwater systems. BMC Microbiology. 17(1). 79–79. 25 indexed citations

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Peretz, Avi, Yehonatan Sharaby, Nina Pastukh, et al.. (2017). Comparison of sputum microbiome of legionellosis-associated patients and other pneumonia patients: indications for polybacterial infections. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40114–40114. 20 indexed citations

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Vezzulli, Luigi, Carolina Argüelles-Grande, Ingrid Brettar, et al.. (2016). Whole-Genome Enrichment Provides Deep Insights into Vibrio cholerae Metagenome from an African River. Microbial Ecology. 73(3). 734–738. 25 indexed citations

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Kramer, Rolf, Annette Sauer‐Heilborn, Tobias Welte, et al.. (2015). High Individuality of Respiratory Bacterial Communities in a Large Cohort of Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patients under Continuous Antibiotic Treatment. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117436–e0117436. 22 indexed citations

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Brettar, Ingrid, et al.. (2015). Legionella species diversity and dynamics from surface reservoir to tap water: from cold adaptation to thermophily. The ISME Journal. 10(5). 1064–1080. 70 indexed citations

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Sharaby, Yehonatan, et al.. (2015). Spatial distribution of Legionella pneumophila MLVA-genotypes in a drinking water system. Water Research. 77. 119–132. 37 indexed citations

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Caro‐Quintero, Alejandro, Jennifer M. Auchtung, Jie Deng, et al.. (2012). Genome Sequencing of Five Shewanella baltica Strains Recovered from the Oxic-Anoxic Interface of the Baltic Sea. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(5). 1236–1236. 17 indexed citations

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Henne, Karsten, et al.. (2010). High-Resolution In Situ Genotyping of Legionella pneumophila Populations in Drinking Water by Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis Using Environmental DNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76(18). 6186–6195. 27 indexed citations

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Brettar, Ingrid & Manfred G. Höfle. (2008). Molecular assessment of bacterial pathogens — a contribution to drinking water safety. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 19(3). 274–280. 52 indexed citations

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Brettar, Ingrid, Richard Christen, & Manfred G. Höfle. (2002). Shewanella denitrificans sp. nov., a vigorously denitrifying bacterium isolated from the oxic-anoxic interface of the Gotland Deep in the central Baltic Sea.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 52(6). 2211–2217. 89 indexed citations

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Brettar, Ingrid, Edward R. B. Moore, & Manfred G. Höfle. (2001). Phylogeny and Abundance of Novel Denitrifying Bacteria Isolated from the Water Column of the Central Baltic Sea. Microbial Ecology. 42(3). 295–305. 48 indexed citations

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Brettar, Ingrid, et al.. (1994). Fate of Pseudomonas putida after release into lake water mesocosms: Different survival mechanisms in response to environmental conditions. Microbial Ecology. 27(2). 99–122. 19 indexed citations

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