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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Routine use of MSI testing in colorectal cancer using a proposed algorithm	114
APMIS 2022 focus issue on human microbiome in disease and pathology	64
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The effect of gamma and microwave radiation sterilization on periodontological grafts for microbiological evaluation	35
Misleading mental models: Ceci n’est pas un biofilm	35
A metatranscriptomic approach to explore longitudinal tissue specimens from non‐healing diabetes related foot ulcers	25
Animal models of chronic and recurrent Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection: significance of macrolide treatment	25
Risk of orthopaedic implant infection during bacteraemia	23
Aquaporins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	23
Fast processing of gynecologic cancer tissue in Danish Cancer Biobank makes them well‐suited for biomarker studies	22
Toll‐like receptors 3, 7, 8, and 9 in gastric cancer	17
Performance of automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing for the detection of antimicrobial resistance in gram‐negative bacteria: a NordicAST study	17
Immune responses to mRNA‐based vaccines given as a third COVID‐19 vaccine dose in people living with HIV—a literature review	16
Automated assessment of Ki‐67 proliferation index in neuroendocrine tumors by deep learning	16
Anti‐PD‐L1 chimeric antigen receptor natural killer cell: Characterization and functional analysis	15
Bacterial invasion of the submicron osteocyte lacuna–canaliculi network (OLCN): a part of osteomyelitis disease biology	15
Short communication: dog bite and back pain	15
Distinct contribution of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to human neutrophil function and antibiotic efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus	15
Dynamic distribution of systemically administered antibiotics in orthopeadically relevant target tissues and settings	14
Association of Toll‐like receptor 2 rs111200466 polymorphism with low serum levels of IL‐33 in early childhood	13
Aneurysmal bone cyst and osteoblastoma after neoadjuvant denosumab: histologic spectrum and potential diagnostic pitfalls	13
Bacterial aerobic respiration is a major consumer of oxygen in sputum from patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection	13
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Diagnostic utility of the combined use of HNF4A and GATA3 in distinction between primary and metastatic breast and gastric carcinomas	13
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Association of TLR4 polymorphisms (Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) with sepsis: a meta‐analysis and trial sequence analysis	12
Lactams Exhibit Potent Antifungal Activity Against Monospecies and Multispecies Interkingdom Biofilms on a Novel Hydrogel Skin Model	12
Bacteriophage therapy and infective endocarditis – is it realistic?	12
Estimated incidence of symptomatic Lyme borreliosis cases in five southern coastal counties in Norway, 2022	12
Effects of changes in SHP2 expression on liver fibrosis by influencing the apoptosis of hepatic stellate cells	11
Characteristics of de novo cancer in liver transplant recipients	11
Injection site microflora in persons with diabetes: why needle reuse is not associated with increased infections?	11
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Tunneled Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients: Frequency, Risk Factors, and Outcomes—A 10‐Year Analysis	10
Understanding the biofilm development of Acinetobacter baumannii and novel strategies to combat infection	10
Prevalence of paediatric hyperinflammatory conditions in paediatric and adolescent hospitalized COVID‐19 patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	9
Importance of C24:2 sulfatide	9
Performance of PCR‐based syndromic testing compared to bacterial culture in patients with suspected pneumonia applying microscopy for quality assessment	9
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Prevalence, molecular markers, and outcome of bronchial squamous carcinoma in situ in high‐risk subjects	9
Exploring the immune‐modulating properties of boswellic acid in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	9
Toll‐like receptor 5 and 8 in hepatocellular carcinoma	8
New contributions on chronic low back pain: disc infection or contaminated cultures?	8
Clinical Characteristics and Laboratory Diagnoses of Pediatric Patients Hospitalized During an Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae	8
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Biomarkers for iron metabolism among patients hospitalized with community‐acquired pneumonia caused by infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, bacteria, and influenza	8
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors of connective tissue disease complicated with bronchiectasis and pulmonary infection	8
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	8
The value of umbilical cord insertion site sampling in detecting maternal and/or fetal inflammatory response	8
No Bacterial Biomass Detected in Tissue From Patients With Ovarian Cancer and Serous Tubal Intraepithelial Carcinomas Using 16S rDNA Sequencing	8
Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on?	7
Inflammatory mediators in bacterial vaginosis: The role of cytokines	7
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Aquaporin‐1 in breast cancer	7
Pan‐Cancer Analysis Reveals SKA3 as a Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker	7
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bone and joint pathogens using isothermal microcalorimetry	7
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Gene polymorphisms of TLR10: effects on bacterial meningitis outcomes in Angolan children	7
Immunohistochemical detection of double‐stranded RNA in formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue	7
Growth factor expression is enhanced, and extracellular matrix proteins are depressed in healing skin wounds in septic patients compared with healthy controls	7
STK11 mutation affects the killing effect of NK cells to promote the progression of lung adenocarcinoma	7
The use of core genome multilocus sequence typing to determine the duration of vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks	6
RETRACTION: Molecular Diversity of the Planctomycetes in the Human Gut Microbiota in France and Senegal	6
Inter‐observer agreement of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in primary HER2‐positive breast cancer and correlation between tissue microarray and full tumor‐sections	6
Undifferentiated–dedifferentiated endometrial carcinoma; the reappearance of an old friend with insights into the new data	6
Forssman and the staphylococcal hemolysins	6
Characterization of a lytic EBP bacteriophage with large size genome against Enterobacter cloacae	6
How to Write a Pathology Research Paper—Basic Principles and Beyond—A Primer for Residents	6
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Dynamics of endemic human coronavirus and SARS‐CoV‐2 in a hospital of Madrid, Spain. Retrospective study from June 2020 to July 2023	6
Viral intruders in the heart: A review of RNA viruses and their role in cardiac disorders	6
Evaluating the Efficacy of Capreomycin and Levofloxacin Combination Therapy in Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis Patients	6
Pentraxin‐3 detected in human saliva shows limited correlation with biomarkers associated with systemic inflammation	6
Pertussis seroprevalence among adults of reproductive age (20–39 years) in fourteen European countries	6

Fungal positivity and other laboratory parameters in HIV‐ and non‐HIV‐related cryptococcal meningitis patients upon antifungal treatment	6
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Antibiotic resistances of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii in urine cultures: experience in a hospital of Southeast Spain	5
Azole resistance in Candida auris: mechanisms and combinatorial therapy	5
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Prevalence and characteristics of 11 potentially diarrhoeagenic microbes in asymptomatic individuals in Norway, 2015–2020	5
Prevalence and Co‐Detection Rates of SARS‐CoV‐2, Influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Retrospective Analysis	5
Analyses of ABO blood groups with susceptibility and symptomatic variations of COVID‐19 infection, a questionnaire‐based survey	5
Staining pattern of specific and cross‐reacting Melan‐A antibodies: A comparative study on 15,840 samples from 133 human tumor types	5
Molecular epidemiology of community‐ and hospital‐associated Clostridioides difficile infections in Jönköping, Sweden, October 2017 – March 2018	5
Pathophysiological microenvironments in oral candidiasis	5
Antifungal drug resistance in Candida: a special emphasis on amphotericin B	5
Mapping bacterial biofilm on explanted orthopedic hardware: An analysis of 14 consecutive cases	5
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Intestinal metaplasia is a precursor lesion for sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma: genomic investigation of a case proving this hypothesis	4
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
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PD‐L1 and PD‐1 expression in thyroid follicular epithelial dysplasia: Hashimoto thyroiditis related atypia and potential papillary carcinoma precursor	4
Diarrhoea‐causing microorganisms are rare in adult patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy for suspected appendicitis: a prospective observational cohort study	4
Antimicrobial resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cystic fibrosis population after introduction of a novel cephalosporin/β‐lactamase inhibitor combination	4
Circ_0006873 suppresses the osteogenic differentiation of human‐derived mesenchymal stem cells through mediating miR‐20a/SMURF2 axis in vitro	4
A novel fully human recombinant antibody neutralizing α‐hemolysin of Staphylococcus aureus	4
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Emergence and fixation of SARS‐CoV‐2 minority variants in a chronically infected patient receiving therapy in Denmark	4
Systematic Morphological Assesment of the Ascending Aorta Dissection: Application of Cardiovascular Pathology Consensus Statement in Tertiaty Care Hospital in Finland	4
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
Prognostic implications of the tumor immune microenvironment and immune checkpoint pathway in primary central nervous system diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma in the North Indian population	3
An insight on the eye bacterial microbiota and its role on dry eye disease	3
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The microbiome in the pathogenesis of lung cancer	3
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Correction to “The relevance of ERG immunoexpression intensity for prostatic adenocarcinoma in radical prostatectomy of 635 samples”	3
Mucosal microbiotas and their role in stem cell transplantation	3
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Differences in gene expression despite identical histomorphology in sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma and metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma	3
RE: Aetiological profile of acute encephalitis syndrome in Assam, India, during a 4‐year period from 2019 to 2022	3
Tertiary lymphoid structures and gastric cancer prognosis	3
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Humoral immune response of Galleria mellonella after mono‐ and co‐injection with Hypericum perforatum extract and Candida albicans	3
Patients with tinea pedis and onychomycosis are more likely to use disinfectants when washing textiles than controls	3
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A unique case of Fusobacterium nucleatum spondylodiscitis communicating with a pleural empyema through a fistula	3
Screening the Tocriscreen™ bioactive compound library in search for inhibitors of Candida biofilm formation	3
Rhinoviral Infection of the Human Lung Vascular Endothelium May Protect From the Secondary Infection With Rhinovirus RV‐16	3
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