OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Medical Microbiology and Immunology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cytokine responses of immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients with Neoehrlichia mikurensis infection	105
Serotype distribution, antibiotic resistance, multilocus sequence typing, and virulence factors of invasive and non-invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae in Northeast China from 2000 to 2021	100
Dissemination of arr-2 and arr-3 is associated with class 1 integrons in Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates from Portugal	66
In vitro and in vivo therapeutic antileishmanial potential of ellagic acid against Leishmania donovani in murine model	48
Picking up speed: cell cycle regulation during effector CD8+ T cell differentiation	44
Cellular immunity to nucleoproteins (NP) of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) and Hazara Virus (HAZV)	39
Profiling the nasopharyngeal Microbiome in patients with community-acquired pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae: diagnostic challenges and ecological insights	28
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) long-term shedding and HCMV-specific immune response in pregnant women with primary HCMV infection	27
Transmission of cell-associated human cytomegalovirus isolates between various cell types using polymorphonuclear leukocytes as a vehicle	26
Effects of cigarette smoke extract on bronchial epithelial cells stimulated with Cryptococcus neoformans	23
Obituary Prof. Ulrich Vogel, MD 1964–2022: a scientific mentor and expert in infection prevention and control	22
Identification of homologs of the Chlamydia trachomatis effector CteG reveals a family of Chlamydiaceae type III secreted proteins that can be delivered into host cells	18
Alteration of β-glucan in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris leads to immune evasion and increased virulence	17
Lipopolysaccharide with long O-antigen is crucial for Salmonella Enteritidis to evade complement activity and to facilitate bacterial survival in vivo in the Galleria mellonella infection model	16
Functional cross-species conservation of guanylate-binding proteins in innate immunity	15
Association of IFIH1 and DDX58 genes polymorphism with susceptibility to COVID-19	15
Histone methyltransferase SETD2 inhibits M1 macrophage polarization and glycolysis by suppressing HIF-1α in sepsis-induced acute lung injury	14
Child type 1 diabetes associated with mother vaginal bacteriome and mycobiome	14
Antibody Fc-binding profiles and ACE2 affinity to SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants	14
Immune complexes as culprits of immunopathology in severe COVID-19	13
Eicosapentaenoic acid influences the pathogenesis of Candida albicans in Caenorhabditis elegans via inhibition of hyphal formation and stimulation of the host immune response	13
SARS-CoV-2 herd immunity of the Kyrgyz population in 2021	11
Discovery of B-cell epitopes for development of dengue vaccines and antibody therapeutics	11
Dose-dependent M2 macrophage polarization induced by Talaromyces marneffei promotes lung cancer cell growth via arginine-ornithine-cycle activation	11
Contributing role of TNF, IL-10, sTNFR1 and TNF gene polymorphisms in disease severity of leptospirosis	11

Analytical and clinical evaluation of a novel real-time PCR-based detection kit for Mpox virus	10
CD146 deficiency promotes inflammatory type 2 responses in pulmonary cryptococcosis	9
Exploration of compounds to inhibit the Panton-Valentine leukocidin of Staphylococcus aureus	9
Acinetobacter baumannii reinforces the pathogenesis by promoting IL-17 production in a mouse pneumonia model	8
The quantity and quality of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies show contrariwise association with COVID-19 severity: lessons learned from IgG avidity	8
Deciphering long-term immune effects of HIV-1/SARS-CoV-2 co-infection: a longitudinal study	8
MPXV infection impairs IFN response but is partially sensitive to IFN-γ antiviral effect	8
Variable detection of Omicron-BA.1 and -BA.2 by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests	7
The human symbiont Mucispirillum schaedleri: causality in health and disease	7
Head-to-head performance comparison of self-collected nasal versus professional-collected nasopharyngeal swab for a WHO-listed SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic test	7
Blood and saliva SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels in self-collected dried spot samples	6
Echinacoside, a promising sortase A inhibitor, combined with vancomycin against murine models of MRSA-induced pneumonia	6
Pentraxin 3, a serum biomarker in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1-associated myelopathy patients and asymptomatic carriers	6
In silico identification and ex vivo evaluation of Toxoplasma gondii peptides restricted to HLA-A02, HLA-A24 and HLA-B*35 alleles in human PBMC from a Colombian population	6
Rapid tests should be used with caution for HIV-1 primary infection screening	6
Rapid and sensitive identification of omicron by variant-specific PCR and nanopore sequencing: paradigm for diagnostics of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants	5
Persistently elevated complement alternative pathway biomarkers in COVID-19 correlate with hypoxemia and predict in-hospital mortality	5
SARS-CoV-2 infection in the context of Kawasaki disease and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children	5
Reduced neutralization against Delta, Gamma, Mu, and Omicron BA.1 variants of SARS-CoV-2 from previous non-Omicron infection	5
Cytomegalovirus immune evasion sets the functional avidity threshold for protection by CD8 T cells	5
A high CMV-specific T cell response associates with SARS-CoV-2-specific IL-17 T cell production	5
Understanding host–pathogen interaction: paving the path for individualized anti-infective therapy	5
Schistosoma mansoni infection decreases IL-33-mRNA expression and increases CXCL9 and CXCL10 production by peripheral blood cells	5
Inflammation, the kynurenines, and mucosal injury during human experimental enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection	4
One-dose intradermal rabies booster enhances rabies antibody production and avidity maturation	4
miRNome analysis reveals mir-155-5p as a protective factor to dengue infection in a resistant Thai cohort	4
Prediction of outcome using CD14++CD16−, CD14++CD16+ and CD14+CD16++ monocyte subpopulations in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections	4
Resistance to fosfomycin is increasing and is significantly associated with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-production in urinary isolates of Escherichia coli	4
Protective antibodies against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli are generated from heat-labile toxoid vaccination and exhibit subject- and vaccine-specific diversity	4
A comparative study of IL-33 and its receptor ST2 in a C57BL/6 J mouse model of pulmonary Cryptococcus neoformans infection	4
Fungal infection monitoring on corneal epithelium ex vivo model and its collection over polyethersulfone membrane for detecting Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus	3
Proportions of IgA antibodies targeting glycosylated epitopes of secreted Escherichia coli mucinase YghJ in initial plasmablast response differ from salivary and intestinally secreted IgA	3
Molecular variants of SARS-CoV-2: antigenic properties and current vaccine efficacy	3
Impaired detection of omicron by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests	3
Production of recombinant electron transfer flavoprotein beta subunit protein and its application in a lateral flow assay for early diagnosis of leptospirosis	3
Engineered bispecific antibodies with enhanced breadth and potency against SARS-CoV-2 variants and SARS-related coronaviruses	3
Construction and evaluation of glycoprotein-based nucleic acid vaccines for Marburg virus	3