OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz is 1. 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
Trypanosoma cruzi genetic diversity: impact on transmission cycles and Chagas disease	22
Do the new triatomine species pose new challenges or strategies for monitoring Chagas disease? An overview from 1979-2021	22
The translational challenge in Chagas disease drug development	19
Morphology and morphogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 in Vero-E6 cells	19
Chagas disease control-surveillance in the Americas: the multinational initiatives and the practical impossibility of interrupting vector-borne Trypanosoma cruzi transmission	16
Antioxidant defence system as a rational target for Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis chemotherapy	15
Parasitological, serological and molecular diagnosis of acute and chronic Chagas disease: from field to laboratory	10
Genomics and functional genomics in Leishmania and Trypanosoma cruzi: statuses, challenges and perspectives	10
Systematic review on the biology, ecology, genetic diversity and parasite transmission potential of Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille 1811) in Latin America	10
Emerging and reemerging forms of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission	10
Fast surveillance response reveals the introduction of a new yellow fever virus sub-lineage in 2021, in Minas Gerais, Brazil	9
Prognosis of chronic Chagas heart disease and other pending clinical challenges	9
Population movements, borders, and Chagas disease	9
Family Herpesviridae and neuroinfections: current status and research in progress	9
Perspectives for a new drug candidate for Chagas disease therapy	9
Comparison of viral load between saliva and nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS-CoV2: the role of days of symptoms onset on diagnosis	8
Evaluation of LAMP for the diagnosis of Loa loa infection in dried blood spots compared to PCR-based assays and microscopy	8
The multidimensional comprehension of Chagas disease. Contributions, approaches, challenges and opportunities from and beyond the Information, Education and Communication field	8
Computational approaches towards the discovery and optimisation of cruzain inhibitors	8
Medicines for Malaria Venture COVID Box: a source for repurposing drugs with antifungal activity against human pathogenic fungi	8
Mycolicibacterium fortuitum genomic epidemiology, resistome and virulome	7
Natural compounds based chemotherapeutic against Chagas disease and leishmaniasis: mitochondrion as a strategic target	7
Accuracy of rapid point-of-care serological tests for leprosy diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Urban infestation by Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), an overlooked phenomena for Chagas disease in Argentina	7
Gene expression of Paracoccidioides virulence factors after interaction with macrophages and fibroblasts	6

Is the mitochondrion a promising drug target in trypanosomatids?	6
Flight tone characterisation of the South American malaria vector Anopheles darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae)	6
A history of over 40 years of potentially pathogenic free-living amoeba studies in Brazil - a systematic review	6
Validation of ELISA with recombinant antigens in serological diagnosis of canine Leishmania infantum infection	6
Why do we still have not a vaccine against Chagas disease?	6
Mechanism of action of glycyrrhizin against Plasmodium falciparum	5
Transmission-blocking compound candidates against Plasmodium vivax using P. berghei as an initial screening	5
Transforming growth factor-ß as a therapeutic target for the cardiac damage of Chagas disease	5
Transmission cluster of COVID-19 cases from Uruguay: emergence and spreading of a novel SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 deletion	5
Differential expression profiles of miRNAs and their putative targets in Schistosoma mansoni during its life cycle	5
An emerging paradigm for the origin and evolution of shelled amoebae, integrating advances from molecular phylogenetics, morphology and paleontology	5
Antigenicity and adhesiveness of a Plasmodium vivax VIR-E protein from Brazilian isolates	5
Chagas disease in the context of the 2030 agenda: global warming and vectors	5
Epidemiology of paracoccidioidomycosis in Venezuela: a retrospective study from 1954 to 2019	5
Critical analysis of Chagas disease treatment in different countries	5
Multi-therapeutic strategy targeting parasite and inflammation-related alterations to improve prognosis of chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy: a hypothesis-based approach*	5
Evaluation of cytochrome b sequence to identify Leishmania species and variants: the case of Panama	4
Should COVID-19 be branded to viral thrombotic fever?	4
Clinical and epidemiological aspects of Delta and Gamma SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern from the western Brazilian Amazon	4
Molecular detection of omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant is achieved by RT-LAMP despite genomic mutations	4
Multidisciplinary approach detects speciation within the kissing bug Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus populations (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae)	4
The adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to humans	4
Prevalence and force of Plasmodium vivax blood-stage infection and associated clinical malaria burden in the Brazilian Amazon	3
Reemergence of human malaria in Atlantic Forest of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	3
Inhibition of nitric oxide production of activated mice peritoneal macrophages is independent of the Toxoplasma gondii strain	3
Lipid droplets of protozoan parasites: survival and pathogenicity	3
Host cholesterol influences the activity of sterol biosynthesis inhibitors in Leishmania amazonensis	3
Callitrichine gammaherpesvirus 3 and Human alphaherpesvirus 1 in New World Primate negative for yellow fever virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3
A new Trypanosoma cruzi genotyping method enables high resolution evolutionary analyses	3
Toxoplasma gondii in the faeces of wild felids from the Atlantic Forest, Brazil	3
Giardiasis in urban and rural Amazonas, Brazil is driven by zoonotic and cosmopolitan A and B assemblages	3
Enterovirus infection and its relationship with neurodegenerative diseases	3
Translational research in Chagas disease: perspectives in nutritional therapy emerging from selenium supplementation studies as a complementary treatment	3
First report of Leishmania RNA virus 1 in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis clinical isolates from Rio de Janeiro State - Brazil	3
How is global change affecting Chagas disease landscapes?	3
Significance of a neglected tropical disease: lessons from a paradigmatic case of ‘success in translation’	3
Cerebrospinal fluid: a target of some fungi and an overview	3
How people affected by Chagas disease have struggled with their negligence: history, associative movement and World Chagas Disease Day	3
Article-processing charges as a barrier for science in low-to-medium income regions	3
Design of a specific peptide against phenolic glycolipid-1 from Mycobacterium leprae and its implications in leprosy bacilli entry	3
Suitability of methods for Plasmodium falciparum cultivation in atmospheric air	3
Sand fly behavior: much more than weak-flying	3
Chagas disease treatment: a 120-year-old challenge to public health	3
Detection of non-tuberculosus mycobacteria (NTMs) in lung samples using 16S rRNA	3
Different profiles and epidemiological scenarios: past, present and future	2
COVID-19 diagnosis by RT-qPCR in alternative specimens	2
Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil before the whole genome sequencing era: a literature review	2
Characterising four Sarconesiopsis magellanica (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval fat body-derived antimicrobial peptides	2
Chagas disease affects the human placental barrier’s turnover dynamics during pregnancy	2
The gene expression of Leishmania infantum chagasi inside Lutzomyia longipalpis, the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil	2

Genetic diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi strains isolated from chronic chagasic patients and non-human hosts in the state of São Paulo, Brazil	2
Revisiting trypanosomatid nucleoside diphosphate kinases	2
HIV/Aids and COVID-19 in Brazil: in four decades, two antithetical approaches to face serious pandemics	2
The history of Chagas disease: reflections on science in action	2
In vitro activity of Schinus terebinthifolius extract and fractions against Sporothrix brasiliensis	2
Revisiting Chagas' disease diagnostic strategies in light of different scenarios of Trypanosoma cruzi infection	2
Identification and characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 and Human alphaherpesvirus 1 from a productive coinfection in a fatal COVID-19 case	2
Molecular aspects of Chikungunya virus infections in cancer patients	2
Electrochemical immunosensor for detection of Plasmodium vivax lactate dehydrogenase	2
Geographical origin of chronic Chagas disease patients in Brazil impacts the performance of commercial tests for anti-T. cruzi IgG	2
A short history of innate immunity	2
First report and genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in a cat (Felis catus) in Colombia	2
SARS-CoV-2 variant N.9 identified in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Giardia lamblia-infected preschoolers present growth delays independent of the assemblage A, B or E	2
Expansion of T regulatory lymphocytes by murine bone marrow dendritic cells previously stimulated with Anisakis simplex larval antigens	2
Mitochondrial dysfunction on Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis induced by ketoconazole: insights into drug mode of action	2
Transcriptome comparison of dengue-susceptible and -resistant field derived strains of Colombian Aedes aegypti using RNA-sequencing	2
A review of serological tests available in Brazil for intestinal schistosomiasis diagnosis	1
Perillyl alcohol modulates activation, permeability and integrity of human brain endothelial cells induced by Plasmodium falciparum	1
Intravenous whole blood transfusion results in faster recovery of vascular integrity and increased survival in experimental cerebral malaria	1
Mapping Yellow fever epidemics as a potential indicator of the historical range of Aedes aegypti in the United States	1
Pathophysiology and new targets for therapeutic options in Chagas heart disease	1
Open-source real-time quantitative RT-PCR-based on a RNA standard for the assessment of SARS-CoV-2 viral load	1
Leptospira interrogans insoluble fraction as a potential antigen source for lateral flow immunochromatography	1
Molecular mechanisms of action of trypanocidal and leishmanicidal drugs with focus on novel chemotherapeutic strategies: creation of a Brazilian multicentre working group	1
An updated gene regulatory network reconstruction of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa CCBH4851	1
Presence of trypanosomatids, with emphasis on Leishmania, in Rodentia and Didelphimorphia mammals of a rural settlement in the central Amazon region	1
Insecticide resistance levels and associated mechanisms in three Aedes aegypti populations from Venezuela	1
The challenge of risk assessment in the riddle of Chagas heart disease	1
Molecular diversity of genes related to biological rhythms (period and timeless) and insecticide resistance (Na V and ace-1) in Anopheles darlingi	1
Proteolytic inhibitors as alternative medicines to treat trypanosomatid-caused diseases: experience with calpain inhibitors	1
Characterisation of Neisseria meningitidis cc11/ET-15 variant by whole genome sequencing	1
The scientific publication of the Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1909-2020): a history of contribution to the biomedical sciences	1
Reflections on Chagas disease in the Amazon	1
Clinically silent Plasmodium vivax infections in native Amazonians of northwestern Brazil: acquired immunity or low parasite virulence?	1
A straightforward one-step strategy for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis and screening of variants of concern: a multicentre study	1
Tracing the relationship among HIV-1 sub-subtype F1 strains: a phylodynamic perspective	1
Benznidazole treatment decreases IL-6 levels in Trypanosoma cruzi-infected human adipocytes differentiated from adipose tissue-derived stem cells	1
Vitellogenin genes are transcribed in Culex quinquefasciatus ovary	1
Immunoanalysis of different antigenic preparations of Angiostrongylus cantonensis for neuroangiostrongyliasis diagnosis improvement	1
Brazilian science: towards extinction?	1
Anxiety, depression, and memory loss in Chagas disease: a puzzle far beyond neuroinflammation to be unpicked and solved*	1
Primary infection of BALB/c mice with a dengue virus type 4 strain leads to kidney injury	1
Stronger control-surveillance systems for vector-borne Chagas disease	1
Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease: diversity, progress and challenges	1
New possibilities for chromoblastomycosis and phaeohyphomycosis treatment: identification of two compounds from the MMV Pathogen Box® that present synergism with itraconazole	1
Air in the tires: towards an achievable, efficacious and timely diagnosis for Chagas disease	1
Antileishmanial metallodrugs and the elucidation of new drug targets linked to post-translational modifications machinery: pitfalls and progress	1
First report of Leishmania (Mundinia) martiniquensis in South American territory and confirmation of Leishbunyavirus infecting this parasite in a mare	1
Exploring the performance of Escherichia coli outer membrane vesicles as a tool for vaccine development against Chagas disease	1
Evaluation of the influence of genetic variants in Cereblon gene on the response to the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum with thalidomide	1
Binding of the extracellular matrix laminin-1 to Clostridioides difficile strains	1
Past and future of trypanosomatids high-throughput phenotypic screening	1