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

Article	Citations
Proteolytic activation of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein	132
Current situation of viral hepatitis in Egypt	36
Protective effect of surfactin on copper sulfate‐induced inflammation, oxidative stress, and hepatic injury in zebrafish	31
Reduction of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 infectivity by admissible concentration of ozone gas and water	25
Host innate and adaptive immunity shapes the gut microbiota biogeography	20
Current situation of carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter in Japan and Southeast Asia	19
Coprobacter secundus subsp. similis subsp. nov. and Solibaculum mannosilyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human feces	19
Azole‐resistant Aspergillus fumigatus as an emerging worldwide pathogen	18
Achievements in bacterial flagellar research with focus on Vibrio species	18
Oral mitis group streptococci: A silent majority in our oral cavity	16
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	15
Detection rates of periodontal bacteria and herpesviruses in different forms of periodontal disease	15
CXC chemokine ligand 5 (CXCL5) disrupted the permeability of human brain microvascular endothelial cells via regulating p38 signal	14
Secondary streptococcal infection following influenza	13
Cytokines profile in patients with acute and chronic hepatitis B infection	13
Probiotics as a biotherapeutics for the management and prevention of respiratory tract diseases	11
A comparative study of valaciclovir, valganciclovir, and artesunate efficacy in reactivated HHV‐6 and HHV‐7 infections associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis	10
Diversity of β‐hemolysins produced by the human opportunistic streptococci	10
Human cytomegalovirus infection activates NLRP3 inflammasome by releasing mtDNA into the cytosol in human THP‐1 cells	10
Recombinant Rv1654 protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces mitochondria‐mediated apoptosis in macrophage	10
Hepatitis C virus, insulin resistance, and diabetes: A review	9
Antibacterial potential of selected phytomolecules: An experimental study	9
Subtractive proteomic analysis of antigenic extracellular proteins and design a multi‐epitope vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus	9
Recent advances in structural studies of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system	9
A comprehensive profiling of innate immune responses in Eptesicus bat cells	9

Detection and quantification of Epstein–Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and human herpesvirus‐6 in stomach frozen tissue of chronic gastritis and gastric cancer patients	9
Epidemiology and molecular characterization of chikungunya virus from human cases in North India, 2016	9
BUD23–TRMT112 interacts with the L protein of Borna disease virus and mediates the chromosomal tethering of viral ribonucleoproteins	8
Seven years of progress in determining fungal diversity and characterization of fungi isolated from the Japanese Experiment Module KIBO, International Space Station	7
Molecular signatures in cetacean morbillivirus and host species proteomes: Unveiling the evolutionary dynamics of an enigmatic pathogen?	7
Effects of immune checkpoint blockade on antigen‐specific CD8⁺ T cells for use in adoptive cellular therapy	7
Crawling motility of Treponema denticola modulated by outer sheath protein	7
Comparison of cytokine production in mice inoculated with messenger RNA vaccines BNT162b2 and mRNA‐1273	6
The role of C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) in regulating macrophage polarization in RAW264.7 cells	6
Rapid prototyping vaccine approach in mice against multi‐drug resistant Gram‐negative organisms from clinical isolates based on outer membrane vesicles	6
Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase inhibitor is a novel therapeutic candidate in LPS‐induced neutrophil extracellular traps	6
Functional roles of GRP78 in hepatitis B virus infectivity and antigen secretion	6
Actinomyces capricornis sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of a Japanese serow	6
Evaluation of CHROMagar™ Candida Plus chromogenic agar for the presumptive identification of Candida auris	6
Macrophage colony‐stimulating factor potentially induces recruitment and maturation of macrophages in recurrent pituitary neuroendocrine tumors	6
β‐Glycyrrhetinic acid inhibits the bacterial growth and biofilm formation by supragingival plaque commensals	6
The landscape of extrapulmonary manifestations of human parainfluenza viruses: A systematic narrative review	5
Infectious sporozoite challenge modulates radiation attenuated sporozoite vaccine–induced memory CD8⁺T cells for better survival characteristics	5
The changes of respiratory microbiome between mild and severe asthma patients	5
Recent advances in studies on magnetosome‐associated proteins composing the bacterial geomagnetic sensor organelle	5
Novel and classical morbilliviruses: Current knowledge of three divergent morbillivirus groups	5
Smoking enhances the expression of angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 involved in the efficiency of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	5
Conserved immunogenic peptides of Ebola glycoprotein elicit immune response in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells	5
Epidemiological and hematological investigation of dengue virus infection	5
Multiple clades of SARS‐CoV‐2 were introduced to Thailand during the first quarter of 2020	4
Identification of fungi isolated from astronaut nasal and pharyngeal smears and saliva	4
Diagnostic value of lncRNA NORAD in pulmonary tuberculosis and its regulatory role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of macrophages	4
Development of recombinant rotavirus carrying herpes simplex virus 2 glycoprotein D gene based on reverse genetics technology	4
Advances of genetic engineering in streptococci and enterococci	4
Predictive value of CXCL10 for the occurrence of immune‐related adverse events in patient with renal cell carcinoma	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
Prevalence of saliva immunoglobulin A antibodies reactive with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 among Japanese people unexposed to the virus	4
Amentoflavone inhibits hepatitis B virus infection via the suppression of preS1 binding to host cells	4
Continuous prevalence of VEB‐3 extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase‐producing Aeromonas hydrophila in a local river in gifu city, Japan	4
Next‐generation sequencing for typing human papillomaviruses and predicting multi‐infections and their clinical symptoms	4
Telmisartan ameliorates LPS‐induced pneumonia in rats through regulation of the PPARγ/NF‐κB pathway	4
Targeting of neutrophil activation in the early phase of the disease for prevention of Coronavirus disease‐19 severity	4
Potential role of green tea amino acid l‐theanine in the activation of innate immune response by enhancing expression of cytochrome b₅₅₈ responsible for the reactiv	4
Influenza A virus protein PA‐X suppresses host Ankrd17‐mediated immune responses	4
Downregulation of hepatitis C virus replication by miR‐196a using lentiviral vectors	4
Pneumococcal proteins ClpC and UvrC as novel host plasminogen binding factors	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
cydA, spdC, and mroQ are novel genes involved in the plasma coagulation of Staphylococcus aureus	3
Emergence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotype O10:K4 in Thailand	3
The risk of unintentional propagation of poliovirus can be minimized by using human cell lines lacking the functional CD155 gene	3
Antimicrobial peptide HI‐3 from Hermetia illucens alleviates inflammation in lipopolysaccharide‐stimulated RAW264.7 cells via suppression of the nuclear factor kappa‐B signaling pathway	3
Large‐scale investigation of zoonotic viruses in the era of high‐throughput sequencing	3
Comprehensive characterization of sortase A‐dependent surface proteins in Streptococcus mutans	3
Duck Tembusu virus induces stronger cellular responses than Japanese encephalitis virus in primary duck neurons and fibroblasts	3

Human serum albumin stabilizes streptolysin S activity secreted in the extracellular milieu by streptolysin S‐producing streptococci	3
Expression and diversity of the sialic acid–binding adhesin and its homologs associated with oral streptococcal infection	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
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
Rhodococcus equiU19 strain harbors a nonmobilizable virulence plasmid	3
Anti‐inflammatory effect a specific Lactiplantibacillus plantarum in an ovalbumin‐induced asthma model	3
Long noncoding RNA MALAT1 inhibition attenuates sepsis‐induced acute lung injury through modulating the miR‐129‐5p/PAX6/ZEB2 axis	3
Monoclonal antibodies against foot‐and‐mouth disease virus RNA polymerase for detection of virus infection	3
Phenotypic characterization of human peripheral γδT‐cell subsets in glioblastoma	3
Bioinformatic investigation of Nipah virus surface protein mutations: Molecular docking with Ephrin B2 receptor, molecular dynamics simulation, and structural impact analysis	3
Identification potential epigenetic biomarkers of a human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculosis co‐infection based on weighted gene co‐expression network analysis	3
Suitability of NIID‐MDCK cells as a substrate for cell‐based influenza vaccine development from the perspective of adventitious virus susceptibility	3
Expression of virulence factors under different environmental conditions in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans	3
ldhA‐induced persister in Escherichia coli is formed through accidental SOS response via intracellular metabolic perturbation	3