OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clinical Microbiology Reviews is 42. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Wild-type distributions of minimum inhibitory concentrations and epidemiological cut-off values—laboratory and clinical utility	381
Extracutaneous sporotrichosis	218
Transmission of Infections during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	183
Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies to prevent healthcare-associated bacterial infections	169
A Comprehensive Review on the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Human Neurological Disorders	139
The long reach of influenza and other respiratory viruses: from acute epithelial injury to post-viral lung disease	135
Erratum for Nyaruaba et al., “Digital PCR Applications in the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Era: a Roadmap for Future Outbreaks”	127
Integrating whole-genome sequencing into antimicrobial resistance surveillance: methodologies, challenges, and perspectives	118
Antibiotic tolerance among clinical isolates: mechanisms, detection, prevalence, and significance	117
Sensitivity to Vaccines, Therapeutic Antibodies, and Viral Entry Inhibitors and Advances To Counter the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant	117
Emerging hybrid shigatoxigenic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli serotype O80:H2 in humans and calves	113
HIV-associated cancers and lymphoproliferative disorders caused by Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus and Epstein-Barr virus	112
Progression of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria meningitidis	101
Membrane Technology for Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Parasitic Neglected Tropical Diseases	90
Clostridioides difficile infection: history, epidemiology, risk factors, prevention, clinical manifestations, treatment, and future options	88
Intestinal biofilms: pathophysiological relevance, host defense, and therapeutic opportunities	82
Viral infections and pathogenesis of glaucoma: a comprehensive review	82
A review of post-exposure strategies for high-consequence viral pathogens in the laboratory	80
Canonical fact versus hypothesis testing to decipher transmission of non-tuberculous and tuberculous mycobacteria: a comparative review	79
Non- faecium non- faecalis enterococci: a review of clinical manifestations, virulence factors, and antimicrobial resistance	79
Henipaviruses: epidemiology, ecology, disease, and the development of vaccines and therapeutics	75
Evolutionary Pathways and Trajectories in Antibiotic Resistance	75
Review of BCG immunotherapy for bladder cancer	71
Neisseria gonorrhoeae vaccines: a contemporary overview	71
Drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii : mortality, emerging treatments, and future pharmacological targets for a WHO priority pathogen	70

Clonorchiasis and opisthorchiasis: epidemiology, transmission, clinical features, morbidity, diagnosis, treatment, and control	69
Extrapolation and comparison of West Nile virus- and Usutu virus-associated neurological diseases in humans: linking pathology to clinical symptoms	68
Congenital Syphilis: a Review of Global Epidemiology	63
Bacillus cereus Invasive Infections in Preterm Neonates: an Up-to-Date Review of the Literature	62
Bacterial and fungal infections in persons who inject drugs	61
Novel antifungals and treatment approaches to tackle resistance and improve outcomes of invasive fungal disease	61
BCG therapy in bladder cancer and its tumor microenvironment interactions	59
Diagnosis, Management, and Future Control of Cholera	57
COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma and Clinical Trials: Understanding Conflicting Outcomes	55
The mRNA Vaccine Technology Era and the Future Control of Parasitic Infections	55
Rapid and accurate testing for urinary tract infection: new clothes for the emperor	54
Trained Immunity as a Preventive Measure for Surgical Site Infections	53
Aspergillus terreus Species Complex	52
Immunosuppressant imprecision: multidirectional effects on metabolism and microbiome	50
Lyme borreliosis in Brazil: a critical review on the Baggio–Yoshinari syndrome (Brazilian Lyme-like disease)	49
Harnessing the host response for precision infectious disease diagnosis	48
Agnostic Sequencing for Detection of Viral Pathogens	48
2021 Acknowledgment of CMR Reviewers	46
Artemisinin-resistant malaria	46
Editorial Board	46
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in people living with HIV: a review	45
COVID-19 therapeutics	43
Pathogenesis of viral infections during pregnancy	42
The challenges of difficult-to-treat Acinetobacter infections	42