Markus Huemer

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 896 citations indexed

About

Markus Huemer is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Huemer has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 896 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Infectious Diseases, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Markus Huemer's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers). Markus Huemer is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (4 papers). Markus Huemer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and United States. Markus Huemer's co-authors include Annelies S. Zinkernagel, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Silvio D. Brugger, Clément Vulin, Nadja Leimer, Martin Ackermann, Alejandro Gómez-Mejía, Silja Weßler, Reto A. Schuepbach and Barbara Hasse and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Markus Huemer

16 papers receiving 883 citations

Hit Papers

Antibiotic resistance and persistence—Implications for hu... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Antibiotic resistance and persistence—Implications for human health and treatment perspectives
    2020 489 citations Markus Huemer, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat et al. EMBO Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Markus Huemer Switzerland 11 352 202 200 124 120 16 896
Srikanth Mairpady Shambat Switzerland 18 507 1.4× 197 1.0× 501 2.5× 105 0.8× 208 1.7× 34 1.4k
Ebrahim Kouhsari Iran 18 363 1.0× 311 1.5× 347 1.7× 64 0.5× 82 0.7× 78 1.3k
Mojgan Sabet United States 19 351 1.0× 345 1.7× 167 0.8× 86 0.7× 81 0.7× 30 1.3k
Victor I. Band United States 10 221 0.6× 480 2.4× 101 0.5× 124 1.0× 121 1.0× 14 827
Peter Jorth United States 17 654 1.9× 171 0.8× 96 0.5× 176 1.4× 84 0.7× 35 1.2k
Emily K. Crispell United States 13 313 0.9× 193 1.0× 294 1.5× 79 0.6× 127 1.1× 17 774
Joana Sá‐Pessoa United Kingdom 17 485 1.4× 461 2.3× 120 0.6× 86 0.7× 93 0.8× 22 1.1k
Clayton W. Hall Canada 7 748 2.1× 290 1.4× 133 0.7× 101 0.8× 227 1.9× 12 1.3k
Jacob E. Choby United States 11 395 1.1× 400 2.0× 184 0.9× 93 0.8× 56 0.5× 17 942
Toyotaka Sato Japan 18 225 0.6× 410 2.0× 217 1.1× 58 0.5× 97 0.8× 76 951

Countries citing papers authored by Markus Huemer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Markus Huemer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Huemer

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Keller, Nadia, Mathilde Boumasmoud, Federica Andreoni, et al.. (2024). Investigating group A Streptococcus antibiotic tolerance in necrotizing fasciitis. mSphere. 9(9). e0063424–e0063424. 2 indexed citations
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Huemer, Markus, et al.. (2024). MEndoB, a chimeric lysin featuring a novel domain architecture and superior activity for the treatment of staphylococcal infections. mBio. 15(2). e0254023–e0254023. 3 indexed citations
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Huemer, Markus, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Sandro F. F. Pereira, et al.. (2023). Serine-threonine phosphoregulation by PknB and Stp contributes to quiescence and antibiotic tolerance in Staphylococcus aureus. Science Signaling. 16(766). eabj8194–eabj8194. 11 indexed citations
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Keller, Anja, Markus Huemer, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, et al.. (2023). Systemic application of bone-targeting peptidoglycan hydrolases as a novel treatment approach for staphylococcal bone infection. mBio. 14(5). e0183023–e0183023. 1 indexed citations
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Shambat, Srikanth Mairpady, Alejandro Gómez-Mejía, Markus Huemer, et al.. (2022). Hyperinflammatory environment drives dysfunctional myeloid cell effector response to bacterial challenge in COVID-19. PLoS Pathogens. 18(1). e1010176–e1010176. 19 indexed citations
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Boumasmoud, Mathilde, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Clément Vulin, et al.. (2022). Quantification of within-patient Staphylococcus aureus phenotypic heterogeneity as a proxy for the presence of persisters across clinical presentations. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 28(7). 1022.e1–1022.e7. 14 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Thomas P., et al.. (2022). E-Cadherin Orthologues as Substrates for the Serine Protease High Temperature Requirement A (HtrA). Biomolecules. 12(3). 356–356. 5 indexed citations
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Huemer, Markus, Claudio Acevedo, Alejandro Gómez-Mejía, et al.. (2021). Assessing Antibiotic Tolerance of Staphylococcus aureus Derived Directly from Patients by the Replica Plating Tolerance Isolation System (REPTIS). Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(1). e0096721–e0096721. 7 indexed citations
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Huemer, Markus, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Sandra Söderholm, et al.. (2021). Molecular reprogramming and phenotype switching in Staphylococcus aureus lead to high antibiotic persistence and affect therapy success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(7). 72 indexed citations
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Shambat, Srikanth Mairpady, Clément Vulin, Sylvia Hoeller, et al.. (2021). Blunted sFasL signalling exacerbates TNF‐driven neutrophil necroptosis in critically ill COVID‐19 patients. Clinical & Translational Immunology. 10(12). e1357–e1357. 24 indexed citations
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Huemer, Markus, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Silvio D. Brugger, & Annelies S. Zinkernagel. (2020). Antibiotic resistance and persistence—Implications for human health and treatment perspectives. EMBO Reports. 21(12). e51034–e51034. 489 indexed citations breakdown →
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Huemer, Markus, Susanne Meile, Anja Keller, et al.. (2020). Engineering of Long-Circulating Peptidoglycan Hydrolases Enables Efficient Treatment of Systemic Staphylococcus aureus Infection. mBio. 11(5). 24 indexed citations
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Huemer, Markus, Srikanth Mairpady Shambat, Nadja Leimer, et al.. (2020). Targeting Hidden Pathogens: Cell-Penetrating Enzybiotics Eradicate Intracellular Drug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. mBio. 11(2). 66 indexed citations
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Vulin, Clément, Nadja Leimer, Markus Huemer, Martin Ackermann, & Annelies S. Zinkernagel. (2018). Prolonged bacterial lag time results in small colony variants that represent a sub-population of persisters. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4074–4074. 112 indexed citations
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Schönauer, Esther, Karthe Ponnuraj, Markus Huemer, et al.. (2016). Cloning, Purification and Characterization of the Collagenase ColA Expressed by Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0162433–e0162433. 20 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Thomas P., et al.. (2016). Calcium binding protects E-cadherin from cleavage by Helicobacter pylori HtrA. Gut Pathogens. 8(1). 29–29. 27 indexed citations

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