Pedro Cecílio

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 376 citations indexed

About

Pedro Cecílio is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro Cecílio has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 376 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 8 papers in Epidemiology and 5 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Pedro Cecílio's work include Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (12 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). Pedro Cecílio is often cited by papers focused on Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (12 papers), Trypanosoma species research and implications (8 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers). Pedro Cecílio collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Brazil. Pedro Cecílio's co-authors include Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, Fabiano Oliveira, Begoña Pérez‐Cabezas, Nuno Santarém, Jesús G. Valenzuela, Rita Vasconcellos, Joana Tavares, Ricardo Silvestre, Claudio Meneses and José Catita and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Pedro Cecílio

19 papers receiving 371 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.

Sand flies: Basic information on the vectors of leishmaniasis and their interactions with Leishmania parasites

2022 141 citations Pedro Cecílio, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva et al. Communications Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pedro Cecílio Portugal	11	279	148	69	62	57	20	376
Sydnei Magno da Silva Brazil	12	453 1.6×	287 1.9×	116 1.7×	30 0.5×	36 0.6×	19	520
André G. Costa-Martins Brazil	13	168 0.6×	234 1.6×	72 1.0×	81 1.3×	113 2.0×	29	353
Valeria Tekiel Argentina	13	206 0.7×	286 1.9×	117 1.7×	105 1.7×	48 0.8×	28	414
Blaise Dondji United States	11	333 1.2×	222 1.5×	118 1.7×	32 0.5×	39 0.7×	35	520
Minerva Arce-Fonseca Mexico	12	273 1.0×	361 2.4×	136 2.0×	46 0.7×	68 1.2×	26	423
Aline Fagundes Brazil	15	456 1.6×	269 1.8×	108 1.6×	22 0.4×	57 1.0×	35	532
Paola Andrea Barroso Argentina	13	521 1.9×	323 2.2×	77 1.1×	32 0.5×	70 1.2×	34	558
M. A. B. Moreira Brazil	6	354 1.3×	207 1.4×	110 1.6×	24 0.4×	18 0.3×	7	389
María Cruz Peru	13	451 1.6×	286 1.9×	114 1.7×	32 0.5×	45 0.8×	17	571
Reginaldo Roris Cavalcante Brazil	11	289 1.0×	159 1.1×	78 1.1×	28 0.5×	159 2.8×	13	413

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Cecílio, Pedro, Tiago D. Serafim, Eva Iniguez, et al.. (2025). Leishmania sand fly-transmission is disrupted by Delftia tsuruhatensis TC1 bacteria. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3571–3571. 2 indexed citations

Cecílio, Pedro, Eva Iniguez, Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, et al.. (2025). The impact of blood on vector-borne diseases with emphasis on mosquitoes and sand flies. Trends in Parasitology. 41(3). 196–209. 4 indexed citations

Barletta, Ana Beatriz F., Octávio A. C. Talyuli, Pedro Cecílio, & Carolina Barillas‐Mury. (2025). Optimized Midgut Tissue Dissociation of Mosquitoes and Sandflies for High-Quality Single-Cell RNA Sequencing. BIO-PROTOCOL. 15(1374). e5352–e5352. 1 indexed citations

Alvarenga, Patrícia H., Thiago Luiz Alves e Silva, Motoshi Suzuki, et al.. (2024). Comprehensive Proteomics Analysis of the Hemolymph Composition of Sugar-Fed Aedes aegypti Female and Male Mosquitoes. Journal of Proteome Research. 23(4). 1471–1487.

Guizzo, Melina Garcia, Claudio Meneses, Pedro Cecílio, et al.. (2023). Optimizing tick artificial membrane feeding for Ixodes scapularis. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16170–16170. 10 indexed citations

Aoki, Valéria, Maha Abdeladhim, Ning Li, et al.. (2022). Some Good and Some Bad: Sand Fly Salivary Proteins in the Control of Leishmaniasis and in Autoimmunity. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 12. 839932–839932. 7 indexed citations

Cecílio, Pedro, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, & Fabiano Oliveira. (2022). Sand flies: Basic information on the vectors of leishmaniasis and their interactions with Leishmania parasites. Communications Biology. 5(1). 305–305. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

Valenzuela, Jesús G., Luis A. Díaz, Ning Li, et al.. (2022). Some Good and Some Bad: Sand Fly Salivary Proteins in the Control of Leishmaniasis and in Autoimmunity. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

Cecílio, Pedro, et al.. (2021). Intra- and Extra-Hospital Dissemination of IMP-22-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Northern Portugal: The Breach of the Hospital Frontier Toward the Community. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 777054–777054. 6 indexed citations

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Fernández, Laura, Carmen Sánchez, José M. Requena, et al.. (2021). Protective Efficacy in a Hamster Model of a Multivalent Vaccine for Human Visceral Leishmaniasis (MuLeVaClin) Consisting of the KMP11, LEISH-F3+, and LJL143 Antigens in Virosomes, Plus GLA-SE Adjuvant. Microorganisms. 9(11). 2253–2253. 8 indexed citations

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DeSouza‐Vieira, Thiago, Eva Iniguez, Tiago D. Serafim, et al.. (2020). Heme Oxygenase-1 Induction by Blood-Feeding Arthropods Controls Skin Inflammation and Promotes Disease Tolerance. Cell Reports. 33(4). 108317–108317. 14 indexed citations

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Cecílio, Pedro, Claudio Meneses, Tiago D. Serafim, et al.. (2020). Engineering a vector-based pan-Leishmania vaccine for humans: proof of principle. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18653–18653. 13 indexed citations

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Cecílio, Pedro, Jesús G. Valenzuela, Paulo F. P. Pimenta, et al.. (2020). Exploring Lutzomyia longipalpis Sand Fly Vector Competence for Leishmania major Parasites. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 222(7). 1199–1203. 13 indexed citations

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Costa, David, Pedro Cecílio, Nuno Santarém, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, & Joana Tavares. (2019). Murine infection with bioluminescent Leishmania infantum axenic amastigotes applied to drug discovery. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18989–18989. 12 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Cabezas, Begoña, Pedro Cecílio, Tiago Bordeira Gaspar, et al.. (2019). Understanding Resistance vs. Susceptibility in Visceral Leishmaniasis Using Mouse Models of Leishmania infantum Infection. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 9. 30–30. 25 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Cabezas, Begoña, Nuno Santarém, Pedro Cecílio, et al.. (2018). More than just exosomes: distinct Leishmania infantum extracellular products potentiate the establishment of infection. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 7(1). 1541708–1541708. 25 indexed citations

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Cecílio, Pedro, Begoña Pérez‐Cabezas, Laura Fernández, et al.. (2017). Pre-clinical antigenicity studies of an innovative multivalent vaccine for human visceral leishmaniasis. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(11). e0005951–e0005951. 39 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Cabezas, Begoña, Pedro Cecílio, Ricardo Silvestre, et al.. (2016). Interleukin-27 Early Impacts Leishmania infantum Infection in Mice and Correlates with Active Visceral Disease in Humans. Frontiers in Immunology. 7. 478–478. 12 indexed citations

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Faria, Joana, Inês Loureiro, Nuno Santarém, et al.. (2016). Disclosing the essentiality of ribose-5-phosphate isomerase B in Trypanosomatids. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26937–26937. 23 indexed citations

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Cecílio, Pedro, et al.. (2016). Multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from indoor air of an urban wastewater treatment plant. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 188(7). 388–388. 20 indexed citations

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