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Sara Vieira‐Silva

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DE
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Physiology
Research interest
Research interests include Gut microbiota and health, Diet and metabolism studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
h-index
50
citations
29,034
works
121
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
email

Recent publications

Gut dysbiosis is linked to severe steatosis and enhances its diagnostic performance in MASLD
eGastroenterology 2025cited by 5position: middledoi
Individual-network based predictions of microbial interaction signatures for response to biological therapies in IBD patients
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 2025cited by 3position: middledoi
Dietary convergence induces individual responses in faecal microbiome composition
eGastroenterology 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
Microbiome confounders and quantitative profiling challengepredicted microbial targets in colorectal cancer development
Nature Medicine 2024cited by 101position: middledoi
Rigorous Donor Selection for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Active Ulcerative Colitis: Key Lessons From a Randomized Controlled Trial Halted for Futility
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2024cited by 35position: middledoi
Differential contributions of the gut microbiota and metabolome to pathomechanisms in ulcerative colitis: an <i>in vitro</i> analysis
Gut Microbes 2024cited by 15position: middledoi
Dysbiosis and Associated Stool Features Improve Prediction of Response to Biological Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Gastroenterology 2023cited by 76position: middledoi
Evidence of a causal and modifiable relationship between kidney function and circulating trimethylamine N-oxide
Nature Communications 2023cited by 61position: middledoi
Gut microbiome composition is associated with long-term disability worsening in multiple sclerosis
Gut Microbes 2023cited by 19position: middledoi
Community Types of the Human Gut Virome are Associated with Endoscopic Outcome in Ulcerative Colitis
Journal of Crohn s and Colitis 2023cited by 19position: middledoi
Oral dydrogesterone versus micronized vaginal progesterone for luteal phase support: a double-blind crossover study investigating pharmacokinetics and impact on the endometrium
Human Reproduction 2023cited by 10position: middledoi
Systematic optimization of fermentation conditions for in vitro fermentations with fecal inocula
Frontiers in Microbiology 2023cited by 4position: middledoi
Microbiome and metabolome features of the cardiometabolic disease spectrum
Nature Medicine 2022cited by 275position: middledoi
Impairment of gut microbial biotin metabolism and host biotin status in severe obesity: effect of biotin and prebiotic supplementation on improved metabolism
Gut 2022cited by 130position: middledoi
The virota and its transkingdom interactions in the healthy infant gut
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022cited by 63position: middledoi
Fat and not sugar as the determining factor for gut microbiota changes, obesity, and related metabolic disorders in mice
American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism 2022cited by 29position: middledoi
Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition
Nature Genetics 2021cited by 1,808position: middledoi
Novel insights into the genetically obese (ob/ob) and diabetic (db/db) mice: two sides of the same coin
Microbiome 2021cited by 237position: middledoi
Combinatorial, additive and dose-dependent drug–microbiome associations
Nature 2021cited by 234position: middledoi
<i>Dysosmobacter welbionis</i> is a newly isolated human commensal bacterium preventing diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders in mice
Gut 2021cited by 216position: middledoi
Human and preclinical studies of the host–gut microbiome co-metabolite hippurate as a marker and mediator of metabolic health
Gut 2021cited by 143position: middledoi
Variation and transmission of the human gut microbiota across multiple familial generations
Nature Microbiology 2021cited by 90position: middledoi
Exploring the relationship between the gut microbiome and mental health outcomes in a posttraumatic stress disorder cohort relative to trauma-exposed controls
European Neuropsychopharmacology 2021cited by 78position: middledoi
Benchmarking microbiome transformations favors experimental quantitative approaches to address compositionality and sampling depth biases
Nature Communications 2021cited by 75position: middledoi
Statin therapy is associated with lower prevalence of gut microbiota dysbiosis
Nature 2020cited by 511position: firstdoi
Genome-wide associations of human gut microbiome variation and implications for causal inference analyses
Nature Microbiology 2020cited by 277position: middledoi
Imidazole propionate is increased in diabetes and associated with dietary patterns and altered microbial ecology
Nature Communications 2020cited by 269position: middledoi
A synthesis of bacterial and archaeal phenotypic trait data
Scientific Data 2020cited by 157position: middledoi
Review article: how the intestinal microbiota may reflect disease activity and influence therapeutic outcome in inflammatory bowel disease
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2020cited by 65position: middledoi
The reproductive microbiome – clinical practice recommendations for fertility specialists
Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2020cited by 61position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Jeroen Raes · KU Leuven40 papers (2014–2025)Gwen Falony · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz35 papers (2015–2025)Séverine Vermeire · Europe Hospitals13 papers (2014–2025)Raúl Y. Tito · Rega Institute for Medical Research10 papers (2015–2025)Clara Caenepeel · KU Leuven8 papers (2018–2025)Marie Joossens · Ghent University7 papers (2015–2020)Mireia Valles‐Colomer · Universitat Pompeu Fabra7 papers (2016–2021)Youssef Darzi · KU Leuven7 papers (2015–2021)Doris Vandeputte · Vrije Universiteit Brussel6 papers (2015–2024)João Sabino · Madigan Army Medical Center6 papers (2016–2025)Jun Wang · New York University5 papers (2017–2019)Matthias Van Hul · KU Leuven4 papers (2019–2022) · 4 papers (2019–2022)Kathleen Machiels · KU Leuven4 papers (2016–2024)Gunter Kathagen · KU Leuven3 papers (2017–2025)Nathalie M. Delzenne · UCLouvain3 papers (2019–2022)Bram Verstockt · Imelda Hospital3 papers (2023–2025)Kristin Verbeke · KU Leuven3 papers (2017–2024)Falk Hildebrand · European Molecular Biology Laboratory3 papers (2015–2018)Leen Rymenans · KU Leuven3 papers (2018–2022)