Fernanda C. Lessa

6.6k citations

100 papers · 5.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 31

Impact in

Infectious Diseases top 0.5%
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology top 0.5%
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance

Papers in

Infectious Diseases 43
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research 20
- Infection Control in Healthcare 10
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus 8
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research 4
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 22
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance 22

Co-authors: L. Clifford McDonald (14 shared papers)Ghinwa K. Dumyati (17 shared papers)Dale N. Gerding (7 shared papers)M. GINNIE FARLEY (15 shared papers)Stacy Holzbauer (10 shared papers)Zintars G. Beldavs (10 shared papers)Lisa Gail Winston (8 shared papers)Yi Mu (11 shared papers)
Journals: Clinical Infectious Diseases (20 papers)Open Forum Infectious Diseases (12 papers)Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (8 papers)The Journal of Infectious Diseases (8 papers)Vaccine (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Brazil Kenya

In The Last Decade

Fernanda C. Lessa

92 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Fernanda C. Lessa's Hit Papers

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Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States 2015 · 2.2k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2015 New England Journal of Medicine
2013 JAMA Internal Medicine
2012 Clinical Infectious Diseases

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1	Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States New England Journal of Medicine ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Yi Mu, Wendy Bamberg, Zintars G. Beldavs, Ghinwa K. Dumyati, John R. Dunn, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Stacy Holzbauer Hit paper breakdown →	2015	2200
2	Current Status of Clostridium difficile Infection Epidemiology Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Carolyn V. Gould, L. Clifford McDonald Hit paper breakdown →	2012	357
3	Epidemiology of Community-AssociatedClostridium difficileInfection, 2009 Through 2011 JAMA Internal Medicine ·Amit S. Chitnis, Stacy Holzbauer, Ruth Belflower, Lisa Gail Winston, Wendy Bamberg, Carol Lyons, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Ghinwa K. Dumyati Hit paper breakdown →	2013	351
4	NAP1 Strain Type Predicts Outcomes From Clostridium difficile Infection Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Isaac See, Yi Mu, Zintars G. Beldavs, Lisa Gail Winston, Ghinwa K. Dumyati, Stacy Holzbauer, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Carol A. Lyons	2014	143
5	Trends in Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections PEDIATRICS ·Martha Iwamoto, Yi Mu, Ruth Lynfield, Sandra N. Bulens, Joelle Nadle, Deborah Aragon, Susan Petit, Susan M. Ray	2013	105
6	Clostridium difficile Infection Among Children Across Diverse US Geographic Locations PEDIATRICS ·Joyanna M. Wendt, Yi Mu, Ghinwa K. Dumyati, John R. Dunn, Stacy Holzbauer, Lisa Gail Winston, Helen L. Johnston, James I. Meek	2014	104
7	Model-based estimation of transmissibility and reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 P.1 variant Communications Medicine ·Renato Mendes Coutinho, Flávia Maria Darcie Marquitti, Leonardo Souto Ferreira, Marcelo Eduardo Borges, Rafael Lopes, Otavio Canton, Tatiana Pineda Portella, Silas Poloni	2021	103
8	Effect of Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing on Population-Based Incidence Rates of Clostridium difficile Infection Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Carolyn V. Gould, Jonathan R. Edwards, Wendy Bamberg, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Helen L. Johnston, Joelle Nadle, Lisa Gail Winston, Dale N. Gerding	2013	91
9	National surveillance of health care–associated infections in Egypt: Developing a sustainable program in a resource-limited country American Journal of Infection Control ·Maha Talaat, Mona El-Shokry, Jehan El-Kholy, Ghada Ismail, Sara Kotb, Soad Hafez, Ehab Attia, Fernanda C. Lessa	2016	83
10	Device-Associated Infections among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: Incidence and Associated Pathogens Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2006–2008 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Susan N. Hocevar, Jonathan R. Edwards, Teresa C Horan, Gloria C. Morrell, Martha Iwamoto, Fernanda C. Lessa	2012	80
11	Complete Restriction of Fluoroquinolone Use to Control an Outbreak ofClostridium difficileInfection at a Community Hospital Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Alexander J. Kallen, Angela D. Thompson, Polly Ristaino, Leigh Chapman, Ainsley C. Nicholson, Bich-Thuy T. Sim, Fernanda C. Lessa, Umid M Sharapov	2009	79
12	Trends in Incidence of Late-Onset Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection in Neonatal Intensive Care Units The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal ·Fernanda C. Lessa, Jonathan R. Edwards, Scott K. Fridkin, Fred C. Tenover, Teresa C Horan, Rachel J. Gorwitz	2009	77
13	Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Patients on Chronic Dialysis in the United States, 2005-2011 Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Duc B. Nguyen, Fernanda C. Lessa, Ruth Belflower, Yi Mu, Matthew E. Wise, Joelle Nadle, Wendy Bamberg, Susan Petit	2013	68
14	The Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection Inside and Outside Health Care Institutions Infectious Disease Clinics of North America ·Dale N. Gerding, Fernanda C. Lessa	2015	66
15	Trends in Candida Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Among NICUs, 1999–2009 PEDIATRICS ·Amit S. Chitnis, Shelley S. Magill, Jonathan R. Edwards, Tom M Chiller, Scott K. Fridkin, Fernanda C. Lessa	2012	62
16	Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Raymund Dantes, Yi Mu, Lauri A. Hicks, Wendy Bamberg, Zintars G. Beldavs, Ghinwa K. Dumyati, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Stacy Holzbauer	2015	60
17	Twenty Years of Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Emerging infectious diseases ·Gayle Langley, William Schaffner, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Ruth Lynfield, Nancy M. Bennett, Arthur Lawrence Reingold, Ann R Thomas, Lee H. Harrison	2015	53
18	Burden of Clostridium difficile Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities in Monroe County, New York Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Rebecca Tsay, Meena Kumari Elumalai, Fernanda C. Lessa, L. Clifford McDonald, Ghinwa K. Dumyati +2 others	2012	48
19	Streptococcus infantis, Streptococcus mitis, and Streptococcus oralis Strains With Highly Similar cps5 Loci and Antigenic Relatedness to Serotype 5 Pneumococci Frontiers in Microbiology ·Fabiana Cristina Pimenta, Robert E. Gertz, Sohee Park, Iaci Moura, Jennifer Milucky, Nadine Rouphael, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Lee H. Harrison	2019	48
20	Burden of Nursing Home-Onset Clostridium difficile Infection in the United States: Estimates of Incidence and Patient Outcomes Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Jennifer C. Hunter, Yi Mu, Ghinwa K. Dumyati, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Lisa Gail Winston, Helen L. Johnston, James I. Meek, Rebecca Perlmutter	2016	46

About Fernanda C. Lessa

Fernanda C. Lessa is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Epidemiology, Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, having authored 100 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (27 papers), Antibiotic Use and Resistance (22 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (20 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (10 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (8 papers), Bacterial Infections and Vaccines (8 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (5 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Infectious Diseases (3.7k citations), Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (394 citations), Molecular Medicine (175 citations), Microbiology (155 citations) and Epidemiology (496 citations). Fernanda C. Lessa has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Kenya. Frequent co-authors include L. Clifford McDonald, Ghinwa K. Dumyati, Dale N. Gerding, M. GINNIE FARLEY, Stacy Holzbauer, Zintars G. Beldavs, Lisa Gail Winston, Yi Mu, Scott K. Fridkin and Lucy E Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Vaccine.

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