Monica M Lahra

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
154 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Monica M Lahra is a scholar working on Microbiology, Physiology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Monica M Lahra has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Microbiology, 74 papers in Physiology and 54 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Monica M Lahra's work include Reproductive tract infections research (98 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (85 papers) and Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment (74 papers). Monica M Lahra is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive tract infections research (98 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (85 papers) and Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment (74 papers). Monica M Lahra collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Switzerland and Sweden. Monica M Lahra's co-authors include Heather E. Jeffery, David M. Whiley, Magnus Unemo, Teodora Wi, Philip J. Beeby, Francis Ndowa, Pilar Ramón-Pardo, Jo‐Anne R. Dillon, Gail Bolan and Sergey Eremin and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Neurology and Nature Reviews Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Monica M Lahra

144 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Global surveillance and a call for international collaborative action

2017 410 citations Teodora Wi, Monica M Lahra et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Monica M Lahra Australia	32	2.5k	1.4k	1.1k	710	422	154	3.9k
Remco P. H. Peters South Africa	31	908 0.4×	490 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	421 0.6×	41 0.1×	158	2.9k
Bruce D. Gaynor United States	29	1.1k 0.4×	567 0.4×	1.0k 0.9×	362 0.5×	35 0.1×	74	2.2k
Zhaoxia Zhou United States	23	833 0.3×	425 0.3×	806 0.7×	201 0.3×	38 0.1×	49	1.5k
Kathryn J. Ray United States	29	480 0.2×	245 0.2×	571 0.5×	677 1.0×	80 0.2×	59	2.4k
Michael Augenbraun United States	29	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	301 0.4×	24 0.1×	97	3.4k
Emily Weston United States	16	684 0.3×	215 0.2×	1.0k 0.9×	731 1.0×	106 0.3×	29	1.9k
Kathleen Harriman United States	34	1.1k 0.4×	105 0.1×	2.2k 1.9×	757 1.1×	154 0.4×	70	4.4k
Harold C. Wiesenfeld United States	41	3.0k 1.2×	682 0.5×	1.9k 1.7×	782 1.1×	62 0.1×	125	4.7k
Paul Nyirjesy United States	35	2.4k 1.0×	570 0.4×	2.0k 1.7×	515 0.7×	54 0.1×	130	4.2k
Jeanne A. Jordan United States	29	601 0.2×	263 0.2×	1.3k 1.1×	598 0.8×	196 0.5×	78	2.8k

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Lahra, Monica M, Sebastiaan J. van Hal, & Tiffany R Hogan. (2025). Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme, 1 July to 30 September 2024. Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 49. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Phoebe, Monica M Lahra, Matthew O’Sullivan, et al.. (2025). Epidemiology of early-onset and late-onset invasive infections in Australian neonates and infants: a retrospective multicentre study. BMJ Public Health. 3(2). e002733–e002733.

Lahra, Monica M, et al.. (2025). Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme Annual Report, 2023. Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 49. 1 indexed citations

Putsathit, Papanin, Narelle George, Tony M. Korman, et al.. (2021). Antimicrobial resistance surveillance of Clostridioides difficile in Australia, 2015–18. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 76(7). 1815–1821. 16 indexed citations

Cabrera‐Aguas, Maria, Pauline Khoo, C. R. Robert George, Monica M Lahra, & Stephanie L. Watson. (2021). Predisposing factors, microbiological features and outcomes of patients with clinical presumed concomitant microbial and herpes simplex keratitis. Eye. 36(1). 86–94. 9 indexed citations

Duan, Qibin, Christopher Carmody, Basil Donovan, et al.. (2021). Modelling response strategies for controlling gonorrhoea outbreaks in men who have sex with men in Australia. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009385–e1009385. 5 indexed citations

Unemo, Magnus, Monica M Lahra, Martina Escher, et al.. (2021). WHO global antimicrobial resistance surveillance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae 2017–18: a retrospective observational study. The Lancet Microbe. 2(11). e627–e636. 151 indexed citations

Fifer, Helen, Gwenda Hughes, David M. Whiley, & Monica M Lahra. (2020). Lessons learnt from ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhoea in the UK and Australia. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 20(3). 276–278. 15 indexed citations

Ung, Lawson, et al.. (2020). Pediatric Microbial Keratitis. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 39(10). 883–888. 4 indexed citations

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Cabrera‐Aguas, Maria, Pauline Khoo, C. R. Robert George, Monica M Lahra, & Stephanie L. Watson. (2019). Antimicrobial resistance trends in bacterial keratitis over 5 years in Sydney, Australia. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 48(2). 183–191. 38 indexed citations

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Khoo, Pauline, Maria Cabrera‐Aguas, Dana Robaei, Monica M Lahra, & Stephanie L. Watson. (2019). Microbial Keratitis and Ocular Surface Disease: A 5-Year Study of the Microbiology, Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes in Sydney, Australia. Current Eye Research. 44(11). 1195–1202. 27 indexed citations

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Watson, Stephanie L., et al.. (2019). The clinical and microbiological features and outcomes of fungal keratitis over 9 years in Sydney, Australia. Mycoses. 63(1). 43–51. 36 indexed citations

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Watson, Stephanie L., et al.. (2018). Keratitis antimicrobial resistance surveillance program, Sydney, Australia: 2016 Annual Report. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 47(1). 20–25. 39 indexed citations

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Wi, Teodora, Monica M Lahra, Francis Ndowa, et al.. (2017). Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Global surveillance and a call for international collaborative action. PLoS Medicine. 14(7). e1002344–e1002344. 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alirol, Emilie, Teodora Wi, Manju Bala, et al.. (2017). Multidrug-resistant gonorrhea: A research and development roadmap to discover new medicines. PLoS Medicine. 14(7). e1002366–e1002366. 105 indexed citations

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Lahra, Monica M, C. R. Robert George, & David M. Whiley. (2017). The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme 1979–2017. Microbiology Australia. 38(4). 175–179. 6 indexed citations

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Trembizki, Ella, Cameron Buckley, Amy V. Jennison, et al.. (2015). Estimating the prevalence of mixed-type gonococcal infections in Queensland, Australia. Sexual Health. 12(5). 439–444. 8 indexed citations

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Goire, Namraj, Monica M Lahra, Marcus Y. Chen, et al.. (2014). Molecular approaches to enhance surveillance of gonococcal antimicrobial resistance. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 12(3). 223–229. 81 indexed citations

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Whiley, David M., Namraj Goire, Monica M Lahra, et al.. (2012). The ticking time bomb: escalating antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a public health disaster in waiting. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 67(9). 2059–2061. 62 indexed citations

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Nolan, Melinda, Maria E. Craig, Monica M Lahra, et al.. (2003). Survival after pulmonary edema due to enterovirus 71 encephalitis. Neurology. 60(10). 1651–1656. 76 indexed citations

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