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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Impaired detection of omicron by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests	98
The human symbiont Mucispirillum schaedleri: causality in health and disease	81
Evaluation of two rapid antigen tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 in a hospital setting	66
Influenza and RSV incidence during COVID-19 pandemic—an observational study from in-hospital point-of-care testing	57
Comparison of four commercial, automated antigen tests to detect SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern	46
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	41
Early changes in laboratory parameters are predictors of mortality and ICU admission in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	40
Evaluation of stability and inactivation methods of SARS-CoV-2 in context of laboratory settings	37
Rapid and sensitive identification of omicron by variant-specific PCR and nanopore sequencing: paradigm for diagnostics of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants	26
Potential biomarkers of immune protection in human leishmaniasis	22
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	22
Persistently elevated complement alternative pathway biomarkers in COVID-19 correlate with hypoxemia and predict in-hospital mortality	20
Interferon antagonists encoded by SARS-CoV-2 at a glance	19
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
Functional cross-species conservation of guanylate-binding proteins in innate immunity	14
An update: the emerging evidence of complement involvement in COVID-19	14
Cellular metabolic basis of altered immunity in the lungs of patients with COVID-19	14
Child type 1 diabetes associated with mother vaginal bacteriome and mycobiome	12
Acarbose presents in vitro and in vivo antileishmanial activity against Leishmania infantum and is a promising therapeutic candidate against visceral leishmaniasis	12
Mouse models in COVID-19 research: analyzing the adaptive immune response	11
Molecular variants of SARS-CoV-2: antigenic properties and current vaccine efficacy	11
Mitochondria: intracellular sentinels of infections	11
SARS-CoV-2 herd immunity of the Kyrgyz population in 2021	11
What we actually know about the pathogenicity of Bacteroides pyogenes	11

Cytomegalovirus immune evasion sets the functional avidity threshold for protection by CD8 T cells	11
Immune complexes as culprits of immunopathology in severe COVID-19	10
Identification and selection of immunodominant B and T cell epitopes for dengue multi-epitope-based vaccine	10
Resistance to fosfomycin is increasing and is significantly associated with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-production in urinary isolates of Escherichia coli	10
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) long-term shedding and HCMV-specific immune response in pregnant women with primary HCMV infection	9
Trimer stability of Helicobacter pylori HtrA is regulated by a natural mutation in the protease domain	8
Differential Wnt-β- catenin pathway activation in HPV positive and negative oral epithelium is transmitted during head and neck tumorigenesis: clinical implications	8
Analysis of complement deposition and processing on Chlamydia trachomatis	8
Variable detection of Omicron-BA.1 and -BA.2 by SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests	8
In vitro and in vivo therapeutic antileishmanial potential of ellagic acid against Leishmania donovani in murine model	7
Blood and saliva SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels in self-collected dried spot samples	7
Streptococcus pneumoniae exerts oxidative stress, subverts antioxidant signaling and autophagy in human corneal epithelial cells that is alleviated by tert-Butylhydroquinone	6
Human cytomegalovirus multiple-strain infections and viral population diversity in haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients analysed by high-throughput sequencing	6
Ten rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 widely differ in their ability to detect Omicron-BA.4 and -BA.5	6
Antibody Fc-binding profiles and ACE2 affinity to SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants	6
Histone methyltransferase SETD2 inhibits M1 macrophage polarization and glycolysis by suppressing HIF-1α in sepsis-induced acute lung injury	6
Serological assay for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies improves sensitivity of diagnosis of COVID-19 patients	6
SARS-CoV-2 infection in the context of Kawasaki disease and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children	5
A high CMV-specific T cell response associates with SARS-CoV-2-specific IL-17 T cell production	5
HIV-1 restriction by SERINC5	5
Effects of cigarette smoke extract on bronchial epithelial cells stimulated with Cryptococcus neoformans	4
Evaluation of 5 commercial assays for the detection of Mycoplasma genitalium and other Urogenital Mycoplasmas	4
Transmission of cell-associated human cytomegalovirus isolates between various cell types using polymorphonuclear leukocytes as a vehicle	4
Reduced neutralization against Delta, Gamma, Mu, and Omicron BA.1 variants of SARS-CoV-2 from previous non-Omicron infection	4
Effectiveness of experimental and commercial pertussis vaccines in the elimination of Bordetella pertussis isolates with different genetic profiles in murine model	4
A comparative study of IL-33 and its receptor ST2 in a C57BL/6 J mouse model of pulmonary Cryptococcus neoformans infection	4
Association of IFIH1 and DDX58 genes polymorphism with susceptibility to COVID-19	3
Immunological imbalance in microcephalic children with congenital Zika virus syndrome	3
Gene biomarkers and classifiers for various subtypes of HTLV-1-caused ATLL cancer identified by a combination of differential gene co‑expression and support vector machine algorithms	3
Pentraxin 3, a serum biomarker in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1-associated myelopathy patients and asymptomatic carriers	3
Clinical utility of sonication for diagnosing infection and colonization of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices	3
Contributing role of TNF, IL-10, sTNFR1 and TNF gene polymorphisms in disease severity of leptospirosis	3
Echinacoside, a promising sortase A inhibitor, combined with vancomycin against murine models of MRSA-induced pneumonia	3
Changes in circulating TCF1- and GARP-associated regulatory T cell subsets reflect the clinical status of patients with chronic HBV infection	3
Profiles of CD4+, CD8+, and regulatory T cells and circulating cytokines in hookworm-infected children in southern Thailand	3