Zaid Abdo

13.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Zaid Abdo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zaid Abdo has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Zaid Abdo's work include Gut microbiota and health (20 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers). Zaid Abdo is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (20 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers). Zaid Abdo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Austria. Zaid Abdo's co-authors include Larry J. Forney, Jacques Ravel, Paul Joyce, Pawel Gajer, Rebecca M. Brotman, Sara S. K. Koenig, Catherine Davis, Gudrun Schneider, Kevin A. Ault and Ursel M. E. Schütte and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Zaid Abdo

97 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

2010 2.9k citations Jacques Ravel, Pawel Gajer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Temporal Dynamics of the Human Vaginal Microbiota

2012 1.1k citations Pawel Gajer, Rebecca M. Brotman et al. profile →
Characterization of the Diversity and Temporal Stability of Bacterial Communities in Human Milk

2011 528 citations Larry J. Forney, Zaid Abdo et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Gut and Joint Microbiomes 2025 ·Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America ·(unknown), David A. Villani, Janne Prawitt, Ann Gill, Zaid Abdo, Kelly S. Santangelo, Lynn M. Pezzanite, Steven R. Gill, Michael J. Zuscik	2
2	Impacts of Antiretroviral Therapy on the Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Health of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Cats 2025 ·Viruses ·(unknown), Jennifer E. Rawlinson, Christopher P. Kozakiewicz, (unknown), Craig Miller, Jeffrey Kim, (unknown), Mary Nehring, Scott Carver, Zaid Abdo, Sue VandeWoude	1
3	An Aptamer-Based Proteomic Analysis of Plasma from Cats (Felis catus) with Clinical Feline Infectious Peritonitis 2024 ·Viruses ·(unknown), Zaid Abdo, Barbara Graham, Alora LaVoy, Samantha Evans, Kelly S. Santangelo, Gregg A. Dean	1
4	Loss of West Nile virus genetic diversity during mosquito infection due to species-dependent population bottlenecks 2023 ·iScience ·(unknown), Emily N. Gallichotte, James Weger‐Lucarelli, (unknown), Zaid Abdo, (unknown), Michael C. Young, Gregory D. Ebel	6
5	Temporal dynamics of the cecal and litter microbiome of chickens raised in two separate broiler houses 2023 ·Frontiers in Physiology ·Benjamin Zwirzitz, Adelumola Oladeinde, (unknown), (unknown), Marie C. Milfort, Alberta L. Fuller, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zaid Abdo, Torey Looft, (unknown), (unknown), Samuel E. Aggrey	6
6	Demographic and histopathologic features of dogs with abnormally high concentrations of hepatic copper 2022 ·Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine ·(unknown), Steven M. Lakin, (unknown), (unknown), Zaid Abdo, David C. Twedt	7
7	Accounting for animal movement improves vaccination strategies against wildlife disease in heterogeneous landscapes 2022 ·Ecological Applications ·Katherine M. McClure, Guillaume Bastille‐Rousseau, Amy J. Davis, (unknown), Kathleen M. Nelson, Richard B. Chipman, George Wittemyer, Zaid Abdo, Amy T. Gilbert, Kim M. Pepin	14
8	Litter Commensal Bacteria Can Limit the Horizontal Gene Transfer of Antimicrobial Resistance to Salmonella in Chickens 2022 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Adelumola Oladeinde, Zaid Abdo, Benjamin Zwirzitz, (unknown), Steven M. Lakin, Maximilian O. Press, N.A. Cox, Jesse C. Thomas, Torey Looft, Michael J. Rothrock, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Casey W. Ritz, Samuel E. Aggrey, Ivan Liachko, (unknown), (unknown)	20
9	Management and environmental factors influence the prevalence and abundance of food-borne pathogens and commensal bacteria in peanut hull-based broiler litter 2022 ·Poultry Science ·Adelumola Oladeinde, Babafela Awosile, (unknown), Zaid Abdo, Dinku M. Endale, Timothy C. Strickland, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kimberly Cook	9
10	An Open-Source Program (Haplo-ST) for Whole-Genome Sequence Typing Shows Extensive Diversity among Listeria monocytogenes Isolates in Outdoor Environments and Poultry Processing Plants 2020 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Swarnali Louha, Richard J. Meinersmann, Zaid Abdo, M.E. Berrang, Travis C. Glenn	3
11	Hierarchical Hidden Markov models enable accurate and diverse detection of antimicrobial resistance sequences 2019 ·Communications Biology ·Steven M. Lakin, Alan Kuhnle, (unknown), Noelle Noyes, Chris Dean, Martin D. Muggli, (unknown), Zaid Abdo, Mattia Prosperi, K. E. Belk, Paul S. Morley, Christina Boucher	30
12	Horizontal Gene Transfer and Acquired Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella enterica Serovar Heidelberg followingIn VitroIncubation in Broiler Ceca 2019 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Adelumola Oladeinde, Kimberly Cook, Steven M. Lakin, (unknown), Zaid Abdo, Torey Looft, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jesse C. Thomas, Megan S. Beaudry, Travis C. Glenn	42
13	Subtyping of Salmonella enterica Subspecies I Using Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Adenylate Cyclase 2016 ·Foodborne Pathogens and Disease ·Jean Guard, Zaid Abdo, (unknown), (unknown), Michael J. Rothrock	7
14	Microbiota of the seminal fluid from healthy and infertile men 2013 ·Fertility and Sterility ·Dongsheng Hou, Xia Zhou, Xue Zhong, Matthew L. Settles, (unknown), Li Wang, Zaid Abdo, Larry J. Forney, Xu Chen	195
15	Association Between Trichomonas vaginalis and Vaginal Bacterial Community Composition Among Reproductive-Age Women 2012 ·Sexually Transmitted Diseases ·Rebecca M. Brotman, L. Latéy Bradford, Melissa D. Conrad, Pawel Gajer, Kevin A. Ault, (unknown), Larry J. Forney, Jane M. Carlton, Zaid Abdo, Jacques Ravel	129
16	Evaluation of Methods for the Extraction and Purification of DNA from the Human Microbiome 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), Jacques Ravel, Zaid Abdo, Larry J. Forney	386
17	Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women breakdown → 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jacques Ravel, Pawel Gajer, Zaid Abdo, Gudrun Schneider, Sara S. K. Koenig, Stacey L. McCulle, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Carol O. Tacket, Rebecca M. Brotman, Catherine Davis, Kevin A. Ault, Lígia Peralta, Larry J. Forney	2923
18	Shifts in the host range of a promiscuous plasmid through parallel evolution of its replication initiation protein 2010 ·The ISME Journal ·Masahiro Sota, Hirokazu Yano, Julie M. Hughes, Gary W. Daughdrill, Zaid Abdo, Larry J. Forney, Eva M. Top	79
19	Evaluating the Performance of a Successive-Approximations Approach to Parameter Optimization in Maximum-Likelihood Phylogeny Estimation 2005 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Jack Sullivan, Zaid Abdo, Paul Joyce, David L. Swofford	114
20	Accounting for Uncertainty in the Tree Topology Has Little Effect on the Decision-Theoretic Approach to Model Selection in Phylogeny Estimation 2004 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Zaid Abdo, Vladimir N. Minin, Paul Joyce, Jack Sullivan	70

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