OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Infection and Immunity is 25. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Staphylococcus aureus Osteomyelitis: Bone, Bugs, and Surgery	124
Fitness Trade-Offs Resulting from Bacteriophage Resistance Potentiate Synergistic Antibacterial Strategies	111
Extracellular Vesicle Biogenesis and Functions in Gram-Positive Bacteria	109
Living in Your Skin: Microbes, Molecules, and Mechanisms	71
Crossing Kingdoms: How the Mycobiota and Fungal-Bacterial Interactions Impact Host Health and Disease	63
Finding Order in the Chaos: Outstanding Questions in Klebsiella pneumoniae Pathogenesis	61
Outer Membrane Lipid Secretion and the Innate Immune Response to Gram-Negative Bacteria	57
Ursodeoxycholic Acid (UDCA) Mitigates the Host Inflammatory Response during Clostridioides difficile Infection by Altering Gut Bile Acids	47
Biting Off What Can Be Chewed: Trogocytosis in Health, Infection, and Disease	47
Influenza Virus Infection Impairs the Gut’s Barrier Properties and Favors Secondary Enteric Bacterial Infection through Reduced Production of Short-Chain Fatty Acids	43
Animal Model To Study Klebsiella pneumoniae Gastrointestinal Colonization and Host-to-Host Transmission	43
Genomic Profiling Reveals Distinct Routes To Complement Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae	42
Bacterial Defense Systems against the Neutrophilic Oxidant Hypochlorous Acid	39
NHR-49 Transcription Factor Regulates Immunometabolic Response and Survival of Caenorhabditis elegans during Enterococcus faecalis Infection	38
Short-Chain Fatty Acids as a Potential Treatment for Infections: a Closer Look at the Lungs	37
CRISPR Interference To Inducibly Repress Gene Expression in Chlamydia trachomatis	35
Roles of Eicosanoids in Regulating Inflammation and Neutrophil Migration as an Innate Host Response to Bacterial Infections	35
Cross Talk between Gut Microbiota and Intestinal Mucosal Immunity in the Development of Ulcerative Colitis	34
Molecular Dynamics for Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery	32
Can the Cecal Ligation and Puncture Model Be Repurposed To Better Inform Therapy in Human Sepsis?	31
Polymicrobial Interactions in the Urinary Tract: Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend?	31
Leukocidins and the Nuclease Nuc Prevent Neutrophil-Mediated Killing of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms	30
Contribution of Severe Dental Caries Induced by Streptococcus mutans to the Pathogenicity of Infective Endocarditis	29
Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles from Entamoeba histolytica Identifies Roles in Intercellular Communication That Regulates Parasite Growth and Development	28
Salmonella enterica Infection of Murine and Human Enteroid-Derived Monolayers Elicits Differential Activation of Epithelium-Intrinsic Inflammasomes	28

LuxS/AI-2 Quorum Sensing System in Edwardsiella piscicida Promotes Biofilm Formation and Pathogenicity	25
Lactobacillus plantarum Reduces Low-Grade Inflammation and Glucose Levels in a Mouse Model of Chronic Stress and Diabetes	25
Fighting Persistence: How Chronic Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Evade T Cell-Mediated Clearance and New Strategies To Defeat Them	25
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Macrophages, and Host Innate Immune Response	25
Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Induces NAIP/NLRC4- and NLRP3/ASC-Independent, Caspase-4-Dependent Inflammasome Activation in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells	25