OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Medical Microbiology and Immunology is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A review on impedimetric immunosensors for pathogen and biomarker detection	115
Impaired detection of omicron by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests	85
Evaluation of two rapid antigen tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 in a hospital setting	64
The human symbiont Mucispirillum schaedleri: causality in health and disease	61
Molecular mechanisms of dendritic cell migration in immunity and cancer	49
Comparison of four commercial, automated antigen tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern	45
Influenza and RSV incidence during COVID-19 pandemic—an observational study from in-hospital point-of-care testing	42
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	38
Bacterial aggregate size determines phagocytosis efficiency of polymorphonuclear leukocytes	37
Tetraspanin CD53: an overlooked regulator of immune cell function	37
Early changes in laboratory parameters are predictors of mortality and ICU admission in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	36
Evaluation of stability and inactivation methods of SARS-CoV-2 in context of laboratory settings	34
Tetraspanins: integrating cell surface receptors to functional microdomains in homeostasis and disease	25
Rapid and sensitive identification of omicron by variant-specific PCR and nanopore sequencing: paradigm for diagnostics of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants	24
Persistently elevated complement alternative pathway biomarkers in COVID-19 correlate with hypoxemia and predict in-hospital mortality	20
Evaluation of a laboratory-based high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 antigen assay for non-COVID-19 patient screening at hospital admission	18
Long non-coding RNA NEAT1 promotes lipopolysaccharide-induced injury in human tubule epithelial cells by regulating miR-93-5p/TXNIP axis	18
Interferon antagonists encoded by SARS-CoV-2 at a glance	18
Tetraspanin 7 and its closest paralog tetraspanin 6: membrane organizers with key functions in brain development, viral infection, innate immunity, diabetes and cancer	18
Tetraspanin CD9 affects HPV16 infection by modulating ADAM17 activity and the ERK signalling pathway	16
Intrinsic D614G and P681R/H mutations in SARS-CoV-2 VoCs Alpha, Delta, Omicron and viruses with D614G plus key signature mutations in spike protein alters fusogenicity and infectivity	16
Potential biomarkers of immune protection in human leishmaniasis	16
An update: the emerging evidence of complement involvement in COVID-19	14
Assessing SARS-CoV-2 RNA levels and lymphocyte/T cell counts in COVID-19 patients revealed initial immune status as a major determinant of disease severity	13
Cellular metabolic basis of altered immunity in the lungs of patients with COVID-19	13

Functional cross-species conservation of guanylate-binding proteins in innate immunity	12
Luliconazole, a highly effective imidazole, against Fusarium species complexes	12
Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori babA, oipA, sabA, and homB genes in isolates from Chinese patients with different gastroduodenal diseases	12
Autoimmunity to tetraspanin-7 in type 1 diabetes	11
Outer inflammatory protein of Helicobacter pylori impacts IL-8 expression, adherence, cell apoptosis and cell cycle of gastric cells independent of its copy number	10
Tetraspanins in the regulation of mast cell function	10
Tetraspanin CD81 regulates HSV-1 infection	10
Tetraspanins in mammalian reproduction: spermatozoa, oocytes and embryos	10
What we actually know about the pathogenicity of Bacteroides pyogenes	10
Tspan18 is a novel regulator of thrombo-inflammation	10
Molecular variants of SARS-CoV-2: antigenic properties and current vaccine efficacy	9
HPV caught in the tetraspanin web?	9
Association of serum C-reactive protein level and polymorphisms with susceptibility to dengue infection and severe clinical outcome among eastern Indian patients	9
Identification and selection of immunodominant B and T cell epitopes for dengue multi-epitope-based vaccine	9
Cytomegalovirus immune evasion sets the functional avidity threshold for protection by CD8 T cells	9
Mitochondria: intracellular sentinels of infections	9
Acarbose presents in vitro and in vivo antileishmanial activity against Leishmania infantum and is a promising therapeutic candidate against visceral leishmaniasis	8
Evaluation of Salmonella Typhi antigen YncE alongside HlyE for the detection of typhoid fever and its carriers	8
Variable detection of Omicron-BA.1 and -BA.2 by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests	8
Child type 1 diabetes associated with mother vaginal bacteriome and mycobiome	8
SARS-CoV-2 herd immunity of the Kyrgyz population in 2021	8
Differential Wnt-β- catenin pathway activation in HPV positive and negative oral epithelium is transmitted during head and neck tumorigenesis: clinical implications	7
Resistance to fosfomycin is increasing and is significantly associated with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-production in urinary isolates of Escherichia coli	7
The effect of KIR and HLA polymorphisms on dengue infection and disease severity in northeastern Thais	7
Analysis of complement deposition and processing on Chlamydia trachomatis	7
A role for tetraspanin proteins in regulating fusion induced by Burkholderia thailandensis	7
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) long-term shedding and HCMV-specific immune response in pregnant women with primary HCMV infection	6
Single-nucleotide variants in human CD81 influence hepatitis C virus infection of hepatoma cells	6
Mouse models in COVID-19 research: analyzing the adaptive immune response	6
Trimer stability of Helicobacter pylori HtrA is regulated by a natural mutation in the protease domain	6
Serological assay for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies improves sensitivity of diagnosis of COVID-19 patients	5
Blood and saliva SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels in self-collected dried spot samples	5
Immune complexes as culprits of immunopathology in severe COVID-19	5
HIV-1 restriction by SERINC5	5