Patricia A. Rosa

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Patricia A. Rosa is a scholar working on Parasitology, Infectious Diseases and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Patricia A. Rosa has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Parasitology, 64 papers in Infectious Diseases and 63 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Patricia A. Rosa's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (115 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (63 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (52 papers). Patricia A. Rosa is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (115 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (63 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (52 papers). Patricia A. Rosa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. Patricia A. Rosa's co-authors include Kit Tilly, Tom G. Schwan, Philip E. Stewart, Brian Stevenson, James L. Bono, Abdallah F. Elias, Aaron Bestor, Dorothee Grimm, Daniel Hogan and Sherwood Casjens and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Patricia A. Rosa

139 papers receiving 9.1k 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.

Induction of an outer surface protein on Borrelia burgdorferi during tick feeding.

1995 713 citations Tom G. Schwan, Patricia A. Rosa et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A bacterial genome in flux: the twelve linear and nine circular extrachromosomal DNAs in an infectious isolate of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

2000 656 citations Patricia A. Rosa et al. Molecular Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patricia A. Rosa United States	53	7.9k	5.2k	3.3k	2.6k	1.5k	140	9.3k
Brian Stevenson United States	45	5.8k 0.7×	3.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	125	6.8k
Jorge L. Benach United States	53	7.6k 1.0×	6.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	151	9.8k
Thomas N. Mather United States	48	6.3k 0.8×	4.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	830 0.6×	143	7.5k
Yasuko Rikihisa United States	57	10.2k 1.3×	6.7k 1.3×	2.3k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.9×	294	13.4k
Ira Schwartz United States	50	6.4k 0.8×	5.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	592 0.4×	163	8.0k
Kozo Fujisaki Japan	46	5.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	310	7.2k
Xuenan Xuan Japan	47	7.3k 0.9×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	477	9.1k
Ulrike G. Munderloh United States	43	4.7k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	636 0.4×	145	5.7k
Utpal Pal United States	40	4.3k 0.5×	3.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	948 0.6×	116	5.4k
Willy Burgdorfer United States	47	10.4k 1.3×	8.0k 1.5×	2.5k 0.8×	3.5k 1.3×	971 0.7×	176	11.4k

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Takacs, Constantin N., Joshua W. McCausland, Elizabeth A. Mueller, et al.. (2025). Borrelia burgdorferi loses essential genetic elements and cell proliferative potential during stationary phase in culture but not in the tick vector. Journal of Bacteriology. 207(3). e0045724–e0045724. 2 indexed citations

Rosa, Patricia A., et al.. (2025). Composição corporal e consumo alimentar de mulheres diagnosticadas com lipedema. Caderno Pedagógico. 22(8). e17212–e17212.

Takacs, Constantin N., Jenny Wachter, Yingjie Xiang, et al.. (2022). Polyploidy, regular patterning of genome copies, and unusual control of DNA partitioning in the Lyme disease spirochete. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7173–7173. 23 indexed citations

Takacs, Constantin N., Yunjie Chang, Zachary A. Kloos, et al.. (2020). A CRISPR Interference Platform for Selective Downregulation of Gene Expression in Borrelia burgdorferi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(4). 20 indexed citations

Stewart, Philip E., Martin Strnad, Tregei Starr, et al.. (2019). Visualization of Spirochetes by Labeling Membrane Proteins With Fluorescent Biarsenical Dyes. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 9. 287–287. 8 indexed citations

Takacs, Constantin N., et al.. (2018). Fluorescent Proteins, Promoters, and Selectable Markers for Applications in the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(24). 29 indexed citations

Rosa, Patricia A., et al.. (2017). AVALIAÇÃO QUALITATIVA DAS PREPARAÇÕES OFERECIDAS EM UM SERVIÇO DE NUTRIÇÃO E DIETÉTICA HOSPITALAR. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 9(23). 80–95. 1 indexed citations

Kasumba, Irene N, Aaron Bestor, Kit Tilly, & Patricia A. Rosa. (2016). Virulence of the Lyme disease spirochete before and after the tick bloodmeal: a quantitative assessment. Parasites & Vectors. 9(1). 129–129. 18 indexed citations

Ristow, Laura C., Halli E. Miller, Nita H. Salzman, et al.. (2012). The β₃‐integrin ligand of Borrelia burgdorferi is critical for infection of mice but not ticks. Molecular Microbiology. 85(6). 1105–1118. 45 indexed citations

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Bestor, Aaron, Philip E. Stewart, Mollie W. Jewett, et al.. (2010). Use of the Cre- lox Recombination System To Investigate the lp54 Gene Requirement in the Infectious Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi. Infection and Immunity. 78(6). 2397–2407. 22 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Kevin A., Mollie W. Jewett, Patricia A. Rosa, & Frank C. Gherardini. (2009). Borrelia burgdorferi bb0426 encodes a 2′‐deoxyribosyltransferase that plays a central role in purine salvage. Molecular Microbiology. 72(6). 1517–1529. 25 indexed citations

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Stewart, Philip E. & Patricia A. Rosa. (2008). Transposon Mutagenesis of the Lyme Disease Agent Borrelia burgdorferi. Humana Press eBooks. 431. 85–95. 20 indexed citations

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Jewett, Mollie W., Rebecca Byram, Aaron Bestor, et al.. (2007). Genetic basis for retention of a critical virulence plasmid of Borrelia burgdorferi. Molecular Microbiology. 66(4). 975–990. 56 indexed citations

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Stewart, Philip E., Xiaohui Wang, Dawn M. Bueschel, et al.. (2006). Delineating the Requirement for the Borrelia burgdorferi Virulence Factor OspC in the Mammalian Host. Infection and Immunity. 74(6). 3547–3553. 91 indexed citations

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Tilly, Kit, Jonathan G. Krum, Aaron Bestor, et al.. (2006). Borrelia burgdorferi OspC Protein Required Exclusively in a Crucial Early Stage of Mammalian Infection. Infection and Immunity. 74(6). 3554–3564. 259 indexed citations

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Grimm, Dorothee, Kit Tilly, Rebecca Byram, et al.. (2004). Outer-surface protein C of the Lyme disease spirochete: A protein induced in ticks for infection of mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(9). 3142–3147. 346 indexed citations

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Tilly, Kit, Dorothee Grimm, Dawn M. Bueschel, Jonathan G. Krum, & Patricia A. Rosa. (2004). Infectious Cycle Analysis of a Borrelia burgdorferi Mutant Defective in Transport of Chitobiose, a Tick Cuticle Component. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 4(2). 159–168. 47 indexed citations

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Ibba, Michael, James L. Bono, Patricia A. Rosa, & Dieter Söll. (1997). Archaeal-type lysyl-tRNA synthetase in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94(26). 14383–14388. 75 indexed citations

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Wilske, Bettina, Alan G. Barbour, Sven Bergström, et al.. (1992). Antigenic variation and strain heterogeneity in Borrelia spp.. Research in Microbiology. 143(6). 583–596. 86 indexed citations

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Rosa, Patricia A., et al.. (1992). The interplay of microbes and their hosts. Immunology Today. 13(12). 471–473. 7 indexed citations

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