Onya Opota

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Onya Opota is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Onya Opota has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Epidemiology, 28 papers in Infectious Diseases and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Onya Opota's work include SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (14 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (11 papers). Onya Opota is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (14 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (11 papers) and Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (11 papers). Onya Opota collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Italy. Onya Opota's co-authors include Gilbert Greub, Katia Jaton, Guy Prod’hom, Antony Croxatto, Bruno Lemaître, Olivier Binggeli, Nicolas Buchon, Takayuki Kuraishi, Jesica Mazza‐Stalder and Damien Jacot and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Onya Opota

63 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Blood culture-based diagnosis of bacteraemia: state of the art

2015 301 citations Onya Opota, Guy Prod’hom et al. Clinical Microbiology and Infection profile →

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Onya Opota

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John A. Branda United States

Klaus‐Peter Hunfeld Germany

Eberhard Straube Germany

Adriana Calderaro Italy

Marc Roger Couturier United States

Svea Sachse Germany

Emily R. Adams United Kingdom

Ronald F. Schell United States

Maria E. Aguero‐Rosenfeld United States

Prajna Lalitha India

John A. Branda United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Onya Opota

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20 of 20 papers shown

Opota, Onya & Gilbert Greub. (2025). Syndromic approaches for sexually transmitted infections: added value of molecular diagnosis. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. 20(3). 303–309.

Vocat, Anthony, Claudia Antoni, Danuta Cichocka, et al.. (2024). Real-time evaluation of macozinone activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis through bacterial nanomotion analysis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 69(1). e0131824–e0131824. 3 indexed citations

Conrad, Tim, Patrick Obermeier, Xiaolin Ma, et al.. (2024). Disease Burden and Inpatient Management of Children with Acute Respiratory Viral Infections during the Pre-COVID Era in Germany: A Cost-of-Illness Study. Viruses. 16(4). 507–507. 3 indexed citations

Vocat, Anthony, et al.. (2023). Nanomotion technology in combination with machine learning: a new approach for a rapid antibiotic susceptibility test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microbes and Infection. 25(7). 105151–105151. 15 indexed citations

Gachoud, David, Trestan Pillonel, Γεράσιμος Τσιλιμιδός, et al.. (2022). Antibody response and intra‐host viral evolution after plasma therapy in COVID ‐19 patients pre‐exposed or not to B‐cell‐depleting agents. British Journal of Haematology. 199(4). 549–559. 5 indexed citations

Opota, Onya, et al.. (2022). Tularémie pulmonaire : un diagnostic à ne pas manquer. Revue Médicale Suisse. 18(777). 707–711.

Mercier, Thomas, Vincent Desfontaine, Jesica Mazza‐Stalder, et al.. (2022). A battery of tandem mass spectrometry assays with stable isotope-dilution for the quantification of 15 anti-tuberculosis drugs and two metabolites in patients with susceptible-, multidrug-resistant- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Journal of Chromatography B. 1211. 123456–123456. 8 indexed citations

Opota, Onya, Katia Jaton, René Brouillet, et al.. (2021). Performance of RT-PCR on Saliva Specimens Compared With Nasopharyngeal Swabs for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Children. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 40(8). e300–e304. 14 indexed citations

Boldi, Marc‐Olivier, et al.. (2021). An Automated Dashboard to Improve Laboratory COVID-19 Diagnostics Management. Frontiers in Digital Health. 3. 773986–773986. 7 indexed citations

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Caruana, Giorgia, et al.. (2021). The dark side of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen testing: screening asymptomatic patients. New Microbes and New Infections. 42. 100899–100899. 18 indexed citations

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Opota, Onya, Pierre‐Nicolas Carron, Idris Guessous, et al.. (2021). Size and duration of COVID-19 clusters go along with a high SARS-CoV-2 viral load: A spatio-temporal investigation in Vaud state, Switzerland. The Science of The Total Environment. 787. 147483–147483. 24 indexed citations

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Desgranges, Florian, et al.. (2020). Immunosuppressed gardener pricked by roses grows Legionella longbeachae. The Lancet. 395(10224). 604–604. 2 indexed citations

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Jacot, Damien, Gilbert Greub, Katia Jaton, & Onya Opota. (2020). Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 across patients and compared to other respiratory viruses. Microbes and Infection. 22(10). 617–621. 104 indexed citations

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Opota, Onya, Sacha Laurent, Trestan Pillonel, et al.. (2017). Genomics of the new species Kingella negevensis: diagnostic issues and identification of a locus encoding a RTX toxin. Microbes and Infection. 19(11). 546–552. 21 indexed citations

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Opota, Onya, René Brouillet, Gilbert Greub, & Katia Jaton. (2017). Methods for Real-Time PCR-Based Diagnosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae, Chlamydia psittaci, and Chlamydia abortus Infections in an Opened Molecular Diagnostic Platform. Methods in molecular biology. 1616. 171–181. 12 indexed citations

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Opota, Onya, Laurence Senn, Guy Prod’hom, et al.. (2016). Added value of molecular assay Xpert MTB/RIF compared to sputum smear microscopy to assess the risk of tuberculosis transmission in a low-prevalence country. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22(7). 613–619. 42 indexed citations

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Opota, Onya, Katia Jaton, & Gilbert Greub. (2015). Microbial diagnosis of bloodstream infection: towards molecular diagnosis directly from blood. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 21(4). 323–331. 183 indexed citations

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Opota, Onya, Alain Kenfak-Foguena, Katia Jaton, et al.. (2014). Cryptococcus neoformans meningitis with negative cryptococcal antigen: Evaluation of a new immunochromatographic detection assay. New Microbes and New Infections. 4. 1–4. 11 indexed citations

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Kellenberger, Christine, et al.. (2013). Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of monalysin, a novel β-pore-forming toxin from the entomopathogenPseudomonas entomophila. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 69(8). 930–933. 6 indexed citations

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Kuraishi, Takayuki, Olivier Binggeli, Onya Opota, Nicolas Buchon, & Bruno Lemaître. (2011). Genetic evidence for a protective role of the peritrophic matrix against intestinal bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 15966–15971. 233 indexed citations

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