Melis N. Anahtar

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Melis N. Anahtar is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melis N. Anahtar has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Infectious Diseases, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Melis N. Anahtar's work include Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (5 papers), Reproductive tract infections research (4 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (4 papers). Melis N. Anahtar is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (5 papers), Reproductive tract infections research (4 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (4 papers). Melis N. Anahtar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Africa. Melis N. Anahtar's co-authors include Douglas S. Kwon, Bruce D. Walker, Caroline M. Mitchell, David B. Gootenberg, Brittany A. Bowman, Sanjat Kanjilal, Jason H. Yang, Musie Ghebremichael, Elizabeth H. Byrne and Thumbi Ndung’u and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Melis N. Anahtar

26 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Cervicovaginal Bacteria Are a Major Modulator of Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Genital Tract

2015 520 citations Melis N. Anahtar, Elizabeth H. Byrne et al. Immunity profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melis N. Anahtar United States	15	591	445	407	305	280	29	1.5k
Garrett Westmacott Canada	24	505 0.9×	479 1.1×	399 1.0×	304 1.0×	408 1.5×	54	1.8k
Stuart S. Olmsted United States	15	301 0.5×	596 1.3×	279 0.7×	134 0.4×	307 1.1×	30	1.8k
Cheng‐Yen Chen United States	23	415 0.7×	217 0.5×	274 0.7×	60 0.2×	113 0.4×	45	1.3k
Akihiko Saitoh Japan	27	150 0.3×	440 1.0×	818 2.0×	219 0.7×	883 3.2×	189	2.4k
Maria da Glória Carvalho Brazil	31	611 1.0×	1.2k 2.6×	1.6k 3.9×	147 0.5×	236 0.8×	145	3.4k
Tore Jarl Gutteberg Norway	26	455 0.8×	496 1.1×	825 2.0×	216 0.7×	456 1.6×	72	2.0k
Mark Pandori United States	31	466 0.8×	461 1.0×	964 2.4×	376 1.2×	1.8k 6.3×	83	3.3k
Bradley Ford United States	25	122 0.2×	833 1.9×	648 1.6×	150 0.5×	363 1.3×	86	2.3k
Jérôme LeGoff France	23	157 0.3×	152 0.3×	1.1k 2.6×	168 0.6×	609 2.2×	97	1.7k
Manjusha Kulkarni United States	22	132 0.2×	338 0.8×	302 0.7×	182 0.6×	140 0.5×	56	1.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Anahtar, Melis N., et al.. (2025). Lactobacillus Bacteremia and Endovascular Infections: A Retrospective Study of 100 Patients. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 12(8). ofaf466–ofaf466. 2 indexed citations

Modaresi, Seyed Majed, Melis N. Anahtar, & Aarti Krishnan. (2025). Active on demand: A precision prodrug strategy against drug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. Cell Host & Microbe. 33(8). 1315–1317.

Zheng, Erica J., Jacqueline A. Valeri, Ian W. Andrews, et al.. (2023). Discovery of antibiotics that selectively kill metabolically dormant bacteria. Cell chemical biology. 31(4). 712–728.e9. 24 indexed citations

Yang, Christine, Melis N. Anahtar, & Virginia Pierce. (2022). It’s Not You, It’s SOSA: A Case Study on Breaking Up With an FDA-Cleared Susceptibility Testing System’s Oxacillin Results for Staphylococcus spp. Other Than S. aureus and S. lugdunensis. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9(9). ofac421–ofac421. 5 indexed citations

Anahtar, Melis N., Jiawu Xu, Jeffrey M. Paer, et al.. (2021). Prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance in Clinical Enterococcus faecium Isolates Using a Rules-Based Analysis of Whole-Genome Sequences. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(1). e0119621–e0119621. 5 indexed citations

Anahtar, Melis N., Jason H. Yang, & Sanjat Kanjilal. (2021). Applications of Machine Learning to the Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance: an Emerging Model for Translational Research. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 59(7). e0126020–e0126020. 117 indexed citations

Muse, Victorine V., et al.. (2021). Case 35-2021: A 50-Year-Old Woman with Pain in the Left Upper Quadrant and Hypoxemia. New England Journal of Medicine. 385(21). 1995–2001.

Ciaranello, Andrea, et al.. (2021). Case 21-2021: A 33-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Headache. New England Journal of Medicine. 385(3). 265–274.

Turbett, Sarah E., Melis N. Anahtar, Anand S. Dighe, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of Three Commercial SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Assays and Their Performance in Two-Test Algorithms. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 59(1). 40 indexed citations

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Anahtar, Melis N., Graham McGrath, Brian Rabe, et al.. (2020). Clinical Assessment and Validation of a Rapid and Sensitive SARS-CoV-2 Test Using Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Without the Need for RNA Extraction. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(2). ofaa631–ofaa631. 39 indexed citations

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Shenoy, Erica S., Virginia Pierce, Mohamad Sater, et al.. (2020). Community-acquired in name only: A cluster of carbapenem-resistantAcinetobacter baumanniiin a burn intensive care unit and beyond. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 41(5). 531–538. 13 indexed citations

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Dugdale, Caitlin M., Sarah E. Turbett, Suzanne M. McCluskey, et al.. (2020). Outcomes from an infectious disease physician-guided evaluation of hospitalized persons under investigation for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at a large US academic medical center. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 42(3). 344–347. 3 indexed citations

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Sater, Mohamad, Ian Herriott, Melis N. Anahtar, et al.. (2020). Democratizing Sequencing for Infection Control: A Scalable, Automated Pipeline for WGS Analysis for Outbreak Detection. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 41(S1). s442–s443. 1 indexed citations

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Berns, Jeffrey S., Otto Rapalino, Andrew Z. Fenves, et al.. (2020). Case 11-2020: A 37-Year-Old Man with Facial Droop, Dysarthria, and Kidney Failure. New England Journal of Medicine. 382(15). 1457–1466. 5 indexed citations

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Gaiha, Gaurav D., Elizabeth J. Rossin, Jonathan M. Urbach, et al.. (2019). Structural topology defines protective CD8 ⁺ T cell epitopes in the HIV proteome. Science. 364(6439). 480–484. 92 indexed citations

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Anahtar, Melis N., Brittany A. Bowman, & Douglas S. Kwon. (2016). Efficient Nucleic Acid Extraction and 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing for Bacterial Community Characterization. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 30 indexed citations

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Byrne, Elizabeth H., Melis N. Anahtar, Amber Moodley, et al.. (2015). Association between injectable progestin-only contraceptives and HIV acquisition and HIV target cell frequency in the female genital tract in South African women: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 16(4). 441–448. 83 indexed citations

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Anahtar, Melis N., Elizabeth H. Byrne, Brittany A. Bowman, et al.. (2015). Cervicovaginal Bacteria Are a Major Modulator of Host Inflammatory Responses in the Female Genital Tract. Immunity. 42(5). 965–976. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Byrne, Elizabeth H., Melis N. Anahtar, Gregory S. Olson, et al.. (2014). Injectable Contraceptive Use Correlates with Increased HIV Target Cells at the Cervix in Young South African Women. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 30(S1). A54–A55. 1 indexed citations

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Varadarajan, Navin, Douglas S. Kwon, Kenneth Law, et al.. (2012). Rapid, efficient functional characterization and recovery of HIV-specific human CD8 ⁺ T cells using microengraving. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10). 3885–3890. 87 indexed citations

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