OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of APMIS 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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APMIS 2022 focus issue on human microbiome in disease and pathology	52
Routine use of MSI testing in colorectal cancer using a proposed algorithm	44
Fast processing of gynecologic cancer tissue in Danish Cancer Biobank makes them well‐suited for biomarker studies	41
Risk of orthopaedic implant infection during bacteraemia	35
Toll‐like receptors 3, 7, 8, and 9 in gastric cancer	26
Role of Systemic Inflammatory Markers in the Differential Diagnosis of Organizing Pneumonia and Lung Cancer	26
A metatranscriptomic approach to explore longitudinal tissue specimens from non‐healing diabetes related foot ulcers	23
Immune responses to mRNA‐based vaccines given as a third COVID‐19 vaccine dose in people living with HIV—a literature review	23
Performance of automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing for the detection of antimicrobial resistance in gram‐negative bacteria: a NordicAST study	22
Bacterial invasion of the submicron osteocyte lacuna–canaliculi network (OLCN): a part of osteomyelitis disease biology	22
The Ability of NEWS2 to Detect Sepsis in Adult Patients With Positive Blood Cultures	21
Bacterial aerobic respiration is a major consumer of oxygen in sputum from patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection	20
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Association of Toll‐like receptor 2 rs111200466 polymorphism with low serum levels of IL‐33 in early childhood	17
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Lactams Exhibit Potent Antifungal Activity Against Monospecies and Multispecies Interkingdom Biofilms on a Novel Hydrogel Skin Model	16
Bacteriophage therapy and infective endocarditis – is it realistic?	15
Short communication: dog bite and back pain	15
Association of TLR4 polymorphisms (Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) with sepsis: a meta‐analysis and trial sequence analysis	14
Aneurysmal bone cyst and osteoblastoma after neoadjuvant denosumab: histologic spectrum and potential diagnostic pitfalls	14
Estimated incidence of symptomatic Lyme borreliosis cases in five southern coastal counties in Norway, 2022	13
Injection site microflora in persons with diabetes: why needle reuse is not associated with increased infections?	13
Effects of changes in SHP2 expression on liver fibrosis by influencing the apoptosis of hepatic stellate cells	13
Dendritic Cell Therapy in Chronic Viral Infections: Current Applications, Challenges, and Future Perspectives	12

Dysbiosis and Dyslipidemia: Unraveling the Microbiome's Role in Lipid Metabolism and Therapeutic Potential	12
Dynamic distribution of systemically administered antibiotics in orthopeadically relevant target tissues and settings	12
Anti‐PD‐L1 chimeric antigen receptor natural killer cell: Characterization and functional analysis	12
Importance of C24:2 sulfatide	11
Inhibition of miR‐222‐3p Alleviates Acute Pancreatitis by Negatively Regulating the Expression of SIRT1	11
MUC1 in Colorectal Carcinoma: Association With Prognosis and Putative Anoikis‐Resistant Structures	11
Characteristics of de novo cancer in liver transplant recipients	11
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Tunneled Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients: Frequency, Risk Factors, and Outcomes—A 10‐Year Analysis	11
Circulating miR‐378a‐3p Screens End‐Stage Renal Disease Patients, Predicts the Occurrence of MACEs, and Regulates Vascular Calcification via Targeting SULF1	10
Saliva and Anterior Nasal Samples for Detecting Respiratory Viruses in Children	10
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LncRNA HOXC ‐ AS1 Promotes Tumor Progression via miR ‐876‐3p/	9
Exploring the immune‐modulating properties of boswellic acid in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	9
Understanding the biofilm development of Acinetobacter baumannii and novel strategies to combat infection	9
Prevalence, molecular markers, and outcome of bronchial squamous carcinoma in situ in high‐risk subjects	9
High seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies in healthcare workers in COVID‐19 wards indicates an occupational hazard—a prospective cohort study during the first year of the	9
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Detection of Anti‐CMV TCR CDR3s via Blood and Tumor Exome Files Correlates With Increased Survival for Stomach Adenocarcinoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma	8
No Bacterial Biomass Detected in Tissue From Patients With Ovarian Cancer and Serous Tubal Intraepithelial Carcinomas Using 16S rDNA Sequencing	8
The value of umbilical cord insertion site sampling in detecting maternal and/or fetal inflammatory response	8
Prognostic Significance of Immunohistochemical Surrogate Molecular Sub‐Typing of Small Cell Lung Carcinoma	8
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of connective tissue disease complicated with bronchiectasis and pulmonary infection	8
Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on?	7
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bone and joint pathogens using isothermal microcalorimetry	7
Beyond Frozen Section: Evolving Methodologies for Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Margins in Breast Conservation Surgery	7
Inflammatory mediators in bacterial vaginosis: The role of cytokines	7
Pan‐Cancer Analysis Reveals SKA3 as a Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker	7
Performance of PCR‐based syndromic testing compared to bacterial culture in patients with suspected pneumonia applying microscopy for quality assessment	7
Biomarkers for iron metabolism among patients hospitalized with community‐acquired pneumonia caused by infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, bacteria, and influenza	7
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Clinical Characteristics and Laboratory Diagnoses of Pediatric Patients Hospitalized During an Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae	7
New contributions on chronic low back pain: disc infection or contaminated cultures?	7
“Fertile” Mutations in SARS ‐ CoV ‐2 RNA More F	7
Growth factor expression is enhanced, and extracellular matrix proteins are depressed in healing skin wounds in septic patients compared with healthy controls	7
Immunohistochemical detection of double‐stranded RNA in formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue	7
Evaluating the Efficacy of Capreomycin and Levofloxacin Combination Therapy in Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis Patients	6
Forssman and the staphylococcal hemolysins	6
RETRACTION: Molecular Diversity of the Planctomycetes in the Human Gut Microbiota in France and Senegal	6
The use of core genome multilocus sequence typing to determine the duration of vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks	6
Probiotics in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Benefits, and Potential Applications for Preventing Bacterial Vaginosis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Sexual Health Products	6
Fungal positivity and other laboratory parameters in HIV‐ and non‐HIV‐related cryptococcal meningitis patients upon antifungal treatment	6
Undifferentiated–dedifferentiated endometrial carcinoma; the reappearance of an old friend with insights into the new data	6
Viral intruders in the heart: A review of RNA viruses and their role in cardiac disorders	6
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STK11 mutation affects the killing effect of NK cells to promote the progression of lung adenocarcinoma	6
Dynamics of endemic human coronavirus and SARS‐CoV‐2 in a hospital of Madrid, Spain. Retrospective study from June 2020 to July 2023	6
Gene polymorphisms of TLR10: effects on bacterial meningitis outcomes in Angolan children	6
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Molecular epidemiology of community‐ and hospital‐associated Clostridioides difficile infections in Jönköping, Sweden, October 2017 – March 2018	5
Cuminaldehyde Potentiates the Antimicrobial and Antibiofilm Activity of Vancomycin: A Biochemical Study to Manage the Threats of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus	5
Understanding Heterogeneity and Tolerance of Dual Candida albicans–Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms	5
Staining pattern of specific and cross‐reacting Melan‐A antibodies: A comparative study on 15,840 samples from 133 human tumor types	5
Microbiological Analysis of Lower Airway Samples: Does It Influence the Outcome in Patients With Community‐Acquired Pneumonia?	5
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Inter‐observer agreement of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in primary HER2‐positive breast cancer and correlation between tissue microarray and full tumor‐sections	5
Mapping bacterial biofilm on explanted orthopedic hardware: An analysis of 14 consecutive cases	5
How to Write a Pathology Research Paper—Basic Principles and Beyond—A Primer for Residents	5
Prevalence and characteristics of 11 potentially diarrhoeagenic microbes in asymptomatic individuals in Norway, 2015–2020	5
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Antibiotic resistances of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii in urine cultures: experience in a hospital of Southeast Spain	5
Antifungal drug resistance in Candida: a special emphasis on amphotericin B	5
Azole resistance in Candida auris: mechanisms and combinatorial therapy	5
Impact of Subcarinal Angle on Parenchymal Involvement and Disease Severity in COVID‐19 Pneumonia: A Retrospective Analysis	5
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Ex Vivo Goat Corneal Model for Investigating Host Immune Responses and Antifungal Drug Testing in Fusarium Keratitis	4
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Antimicrobial resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cystic fibrosis population after introduction of a novel cephalosporin/β‐lactamase inhibitor combination	4
Systematic Morphological Assesment of the Ascending Aorta Dissection: Application of Cardiovascular Pathology Consensus Statement in Tertiary Care Hospital in Finland	4
Diarrhoea‐causing microorganisms are rare in adult patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy for suspected appendicitis: a prospective observational cohort study	4
Pathophysiological microenvironments in oral candidiasis	4
Circ_0006873 suppresses the osteogenic differentiation of human‐derived mesenchymal stem cells through mediating miR‐20a/SMURF2 axis in vitro	4
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Infectious native aortic aneurysm with negative blood cultures: do not forget the pneumococcal urinary antigen test!	4
Editorial for PMI Journal 100‐Years Anniversary Focus Issue	4
PD‐L1 and PD‐1 expression in thyroid follicular epithelial dysplasia: Hashimoto thyroiditis related atypia and potential papillary carcinoma precursor	4
Influence of Nutritional Conditions on Coexistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in	4
Prevalence and Co‐Detection Rates of SARS‐CoV‐2, Influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Retrospective Analysis	4
A novel fully human recombinant antibody neutralizing α‐hemolysin of Staphylococcus aureus	4
Differences in gene expression despite identical histomorphology in sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma and metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma	4
Emergence and fixation of SARS‐CoV‐2 minority variants in a chronically infected patient receiving therapy in Denmark	4
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Screening the Tocriscreen™ bioactive compound library in search for inhibitors of Candida biofilm formation	3
Correction to “The relevance of ERG immunoexpression intensity for prostatic adenocarcinoma in radical prostatectomy of 635 samples”	3
The microbiome in the pathogenesis of lung cancer	3
Mucosal microbiotas and their role in stem cell transplantation	3
Patients with tinea pedis and onychomycosis are more likely to use disinfectants when washing textiles than controls	3
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Rhinoviral Infection of the Human Lung Vascular Endothelium May Protect From the Secondary Infection With Rhinovirus RV‐16	3
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No evidence of increased anti‐M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies in SSA‐positive connective tissue disease patients	3
Peer‐to‐peer validation of Ki‐67 scoring in a pathology quality circle as a tool to assess interobserver variability: are we better than we thought?	3
Combination of Isoliquiritigenin and Vancomycin Alleviates Staphylococcus aureus‐Induced Bone Infection in Rats	3
RE: Aetiological profile of acute encephalitis syndrome in Assam, India, during a 4‐year period from 2019 to 2022	3
Next‐Gen Biofilm Control: Gene Editing and Computational Approaches	3
Early Human Neutrophil Response to Different Morphotypes of Candida albicans Compared to Bacterial Pathogens	3
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Nanomaterials and Candida auris: A Systematic Review of Emerging Strategies	3
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Humoral immune response of Galleria mellonella after mono‐ and co‐injection with Hypericum perforatum extract and Candida albicans	3
An insight on the eye bacterial microbiota and its role on dry eye disease	3
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Tertiary lymphoid structures and gastric cancer prognosis	3
Do mast cells contribute to the continued survival of vertebrates?	3
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