OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Proteolytic activation of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein	102
Antiviral activities of mycophenolic acid and IMD‐0354 against SARS‐CoV‐2	60
Animal infection models using non‐mammals	41
Current situation of viral hepatitis in Egypt	31
Protective effect of surfactin on copper sulfate‐induced inflammation, oxidative stress, and hepatic injury in zebrafish	27
Reduction of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 infectivity by admissible concentration of ozone gas and water	21
Coprobacter secundus subsp. similis subsp. nov. and Solibaculum mannosilyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human feces	19
Host innate and adaptive immunity shapes the gut microbiota biogeography	16
Achievements in bacterial flagellar research with focus on Vibrio species	16
Genomic characterization of antibiotic resistance‐encoding genes in clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae non‐O1/non‐O139 strains from Kolkata, India: generation of novel types of genomic island	14
Azole‐resistant Aspergillus fumigatus as an emerging worldwide pathogen	14
Biogenesis of Type V pili	14
Current situation of carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter in Japan and Southeast Asia	13
Oncolytic viruses: what to expect from their use in cancer treatment	12
CXC chemokine ligand 5 (CXCL5) disrupted the permeability of human brain microvascular endothelial cells via regulating p38 signal	12
Detection rates of periodontal bacteria and herpesviruses in different forms of periodontal disease	12
Secondary streptococcal infection following influenza	11
Pathogenicity of clinical Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates from Thailand in a mouse colitis model	11
Oral mitis group streptococci: A silent majority in our oral cavity	10
The candidate vaccine strain Brucella ovis ∆abcBA is protective against Brucella melitensis infection in mice	10
Cytokines profile in patients with acute and chronic hepatitis B infection	9
Resveratrol ameliorates thymus senescence changes in D‐galactose induced mice	8
Changes of frequency and expression level of CD161 in CD8⁺ T cells and natural killer T cells in peripheral blood of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus	8
Recombinant Rv1654 protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces mitochondria‐mediated apoptosis in macrophage	8
Probiotics as a biotherapeutics for the management and prevention of respiratory tract diseases	8

TIMM29 interacts with hepatitis B virus preS1 to modulate the HBV life cycle	8
A comprehensive profiling of innate immune responses in Eptesicus bat cells	8
Subtractive proteomic analysis of antigenic extracellular proteins and design a multi‐epitope vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus	8
Epidemiology and molecular characterization of chikungunya virus from human cases in North India, 2016	8
Detection of the serological markers hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B core IgM antibody (anti‐HBcIgM) in the diagnosis of acute hepatitis B virus infection after recent exposu	8
Bacterial infections in the early period after liver transplantation in adults: A prospective single‐center cohort study	8
Recent advances in structural studies of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system	8
A comparative study of valaciclovir, valganciclovir, and artesunate efficacy in reactivated HHV‐6 and HHV‐7 infections associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis	7
Hepatitis C virus, insulin resistance, and diabetes: A review	7
BUD23–TRMT112 interacts with the L protein of Borna disease virus and mediates the chromosomal tethering of viral ribonucleoproteins	7
Crawling motility of Treponema denticola modulated by outer sheath protein	7
16S rRNA‐based amplicon analysis of changes in the bacterial population in the lesions of papillomatous digital dermatitis in dairy cattle after topical treatment with allyl isothiocyanate	7
Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa veterinary isolates to Pbunavirus PB1‐like phages	6
The role of C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) in regulating macrophage polarization in RAW264.7 cells	6
β‐Glycyrrhetinic acid inhibits the bacterial growth and biofilm formation by supragingival plaque commensals	6
Expression of small RNAs of Bordetella pertussis colonizing murine tracheas	6
Effects of immune checkpoint blockade on antigen‐specific CD8⁺ T cells for use in adoptive cellular therapy	6
Molecular signatures in cetacean morbillivirus and host species proteomes: Unveiling the evolutionary dynamics of an enigmatic pathogen?	6
Actinomyces capricornis sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of a Japanese serow	6
Diversity of β‐hemolysins produced by the human opportunistic streptococci	6
Antibacterial potential of selected phytomolecules: An experimental study	6
Reverse genetics system for human rotaviruses	6
Functional roles of GRP78 in hepatitis B virus infectivity and antigen secretion	6
Phocine distemper virus uses phocine and other animal SLAMs as a receptor but not human SLAM	6
Seven years of progress in determining fungal diversity and characterization of fungi isolated from the Japanese Experiment Module KIBO, International Space Station	5
Infectious sporozoite challenge modulates radiation attenuated sporozoite vaccine–induced memory CD8⁺T cells for better survival characteristics	5
Evaluation of CHROMagar™ Candida Plus chromogenic agar for the presumptive identification of Candida auris	5
Persistence of extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase plasmids among Enterobacteriaceae in commercial broiler farms	5
Smoking enhances the expression of angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 involved in the efficiency of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	5
Proteomic analysis of CHIKV‐infected human fibroblast‐like synoviocytes: Identification of host factors potentially associated with CHIKV replication and cellular pathogenesis	5
Human cytomegalovirus infection activates NLRP3 inflammasome by releasing mtDNA into the cytosol in human THP‐1 cells	5
Therapeutic effect of omega‐3 fatty acids on T cell‐mediated autoimmune diseases	5
Prevalence of saliva immunoglobulin A antibodies reactive with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 among Japanese people unexposed to the virus	4
Rapid prototyping vaccine approach in mice against multi‐drug resistant Gram‐negative organisms from clinical isolates based on outer membrane vesicles	4
Host phospholipase C‐γ1 impairs phagocytosis and killing of mycobacteria by J774A.1 murine macrophages	4
Comparison of cytokine production in mice inoculated with messenger RNA vaccines BNT162b2 and mRNA‐1273	4
Novel and classical morbilliviruses: Current knowledge of three divergent morbillivirus groups	4
Identification of the minimum region of Bordetella pertussis Vag8 required for interaction with C1 inhibitor	4
Targeting of neutrophil activation in the early phase of the disease for prevention of Coronavirus disease‐19 severity	4
Antibacterial activity of phellodendron bark against Streptococcus mutans	4
Translocation domain of botulinum neurotoxin A subtype 2 potently induces entry into neuronal cells	4
Continuous prevalence of VEB‐3 extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase‐producing Aeromonas hydrophila in a local river in gifu city, Japan	4
Human cytomegalovirus UL42 protein inhibits the degradation of glycoprotein B through inhibition of Nedd4 family ubiquitin E3 ligases	4
Molecular characteristics of an adhesion molecule containing cholesterol‐dependent cytolysin‐motif produced by mitis group streptococci	4
Abiotrophia defectiva adhere to saliva‐coated hydroxyapatite beads via interactions between salivary proline‐rich‐proteins and bacterial glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase	4
Detection and quantification of Epstein–Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and human herpesvirus‐6 in stomach frozen tissue of chronic gastritis and gastric cancer patients	4
Identification of fungi isolated from astronaut nasal and pharyngeal smears and saliva	4
Pneumococcal proteins ClpC and UvrC as novel host plasminogen binding factors	4
Hepatitis A virus and hepatitis E virus prevalence relates to human immunodeficiency virus infection in Japanese male blood donors	4
Conserved immunogenic peptides of Ebola glycoprotein elicit immune response in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells	4

Gene expression in lung epithelial cells following interaction with Pneumocystis carinii and its specific life forms yields insights into host gene responses to infection	4
The changes of respiratory microbiome between mild and severe asthma patients	4
Next‐generation sequencing for typing human papillomaviruses and predicting multi‐infections and their clinical symptoms	3
Macrophage colony‐stimulating factor potentially induces recruitment and maturation of macrophages in recurrent pituitary neuroendocrine tumors	3
Induction of antibody responses in mice immunized intranasally with Type I interferon as adjuvant and synergistic effect of chitosan	3
Vibrio cholerae toxin coregulated pilus provokes inflammatory responses in Coculture model of Caco‐2 and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) leading to increased colonization	3
Meningitis and bacteremia by nonhemolytic Group B Streptococcus strain: A whole genome analysis	3
Comprehensive characterization of sortase A‐dependent surface proteins in Streptococcus mutans	3
Influenza A virus protein PA‐X suppresses host Ankrd17‐mediated immune responses	3
Downregulation of hepatitis C virus replication by miR‐196a using lentiviral vectors	3
The landscape of extrapulmonary manifestations of human parainfluenza viruses: A systematic narrative review	3
Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase inhibitor is a novel therapeutic candidate in LPS‐induced neutrophil extracellular traps	3
The risk of unintentional propagation of poliovirus can be minimized by using human cell lines lacking the functional CD155 gene	3
The immunoregulatory axis (programmed death‐1/programmed death ligand‐1) on CD4+ T cells in lupus nephritis: association with vitamin D and chemokine C‐X‐C motif ligand 12	3
Sulfated vizantin inhibits biofilm maturation by Streptococcus mutans	3
Identification potential epigenetic biomarkers of a human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculosis co‐infection based on weighted gene co‐expression network analysis	3
Duck Tembusu virus induces stronger cellular responses than Japanese encephalitis virus in primary duck neurons and fibroblasts	3
Transforming growth factor‐β promotes the function of HIV‐specific CXCR5⁺CD8 T cells	3
Emergence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotype O10:K4 in Thailand	3
Expression and diversity of the sialic acid–binding adhesin and its homologs associated with oral streptococcal infection	3
Host response to the subtilase cytotoxin produced by locus of enterocyte effacement‐negative Shiga‐toxigenic Escherichia coli	3
Telmisartan ameliorates LPS‐induced pneumonia in rats through regulation of the PPARγ/NF‐κB pathway	3
Advances of genetic engineering in streptococci and enterococci	3
Large‐scale investigation of zoonotic viruses in the era of high‐throughput sequencing	3
Multiple clades of SARS‐CoV‐2 were introduced to Thailand during the first quarter of 2020	3
Expression of virulence factors under different environmental conditions in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans	3
Diagnostic value of lncRNA NORAD in pulmonary tuberculosis and its regulatory role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of macrophages	3
cydA, spdC, and mroQ are novel genes involved in the plasma coagulation of Staphylococcus aureus	3