OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Reviews in Microbiology is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
TREM-2: friend or foe in infectious diseases?	110
Pathogenesis ofBrucellaepididymoorchitis-game ofBrucelladeath	73
Botanicals as promising antimicrobial agents for enhancing oral health: a comprehensive review	62
Current developments and prospects of the antibiotic delivery systems	61
The prospect of using nanotechnology to prevent and treat infections caused by Listeria monocytogenes	56
Evaluation of the antifungal effect of plant extracts on oral Candida spp. – a critical methodological analysis of the last decade	48
The diffusible signaling factor family in microbial signaling: a current perspective	48
Ex vivo challenge models for infectious diseases	47
Probiotics for pancreatic β-cell function: from possible mechanism of action to assessment of effectiveness	44
Targeting the gut microbiota to alleviate chemotherapy-induced toxicity in cancer	42
Interplay between lipid metabolism, lipid droplets and RNA virus replication	42
The role of single and mixed biofilms in Clostridioides difficile infection and strategies for prevention and inhibition	36
Dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes in plasmids and bacteriophages	36
Helicobacter pylori infection: from standard to alternative treatment strategies	36
Anti-fungal peptides: an emerging category with enthralling therapeutic prospects in the treatment of candidiasis	36
Mixed biofilms of pathogenic Candida-bacteria: regulation mechanisms and treatment strategies	30
Polyamine as a microenvironment factor in resistance to antibiotics	28
Building up a clinical microbiota profiling: a quality framework proposal	27
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus: a potential ‘living antibiotic’ to control bacterial pathogens	27
Inflammatory bowel disease: tri-directional relationship between microbiota, immune system and intestinal epithelium	26
Salmonella in eggs and egg-laying chickens: pathways to effective control	26
Photoactivity of hypericin: from natural product to antifungal application	25
EnterohepaticHelicobacterspecies – clinical importance, host range, and zoonotic potential	25
Critical analysis in the advancement of cell-based assays for botulinum neurotoxin	25
Streptomyces: connecting red-nano and grey biotechnology fields	25

The WxxxE proteins in microbial pathogenesis	25
The role of microbiome: a novel insight into urolithiasis	24
Microparticles and nanoparticles-based approaches to improve oral treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection	23
Male-specific bacteriophages and their potential on combating the spreading of T4SS-bearing antimicrobial resistance plasmids	23
Transformation of colitis and colorectal cancer: a tale of gut microbiota	22
Bile acid and its bidirectional interactions with gut microbiota: a review	21
New insights into mycotoxin risk management through fungal population genetics and genomics	20
The equine hindgut as a reservoir of mobile genetic elements and antimicrobial resistance genes	20
Rotavirus-related systemic diseases: clinical manifestation, evidence and pathogenesis	20
Combatting intracellular pathogens using bacteriophage delivery	20
Host and bacterial lipid metabolism during tuberculosis infections: possibilities to synergise host- and bacteria-directed therapies	19
Moonlighting proteins: beacon of hope in era of drug resistance in bacteria	19
Microbial persisters and host: recent advances and future perspectives	19
Mycobacterium abscessus: insights from a bioinformatic perspective	18
The cross-talk between mucormycosis, steroids and diabetes mellitus amidst the global contagion of COVID-19	18
Ferroptosis, from the virus point of view: opportunities and challenges	17
Cryptococcal meningitis in apparently immunocompetent patients	16
Engineered probiotics as live biotherapeutics for diagnosis and treatment of human diseases	16
Applications of the phage display technology in molecular biology, biotechnology and medicine	16
Mycobacteroides abscessus ability to interact with the host mucosal cells plays an important role in pathogenesis of the infection	15
Emergence of persister cells in Staphylococcus aureus : calculated or fortuitous move?	15
Emerging strategies to target virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infections	15
Highlighting the use of micro and nanoparticles based-drug delivery systems for the treatment ofHelicobacter pyloriinfections	15
Current research progress on Prevotella intermedia and associated diseases	15
Bacterial adhesion to collagens: implications for biofilm formation and disease progression in the oral cavity	14
Modulating host gene expression via gut microbiome–microRNA interplay to treat human diseases	14
The role of Epstein-Barr virus in autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases	14
Long-Term effects of COVID-19: a review of current perspectives and mechanistic insights	14
Probiotics: insights and new opportunities for Clostridioides difficile intervention	13
Antimicrobial coatings for environmental surfaces in hospitals: a potential new pillar for prevention strategies in hygiene	13
Paving the way forward: Escherichia coli bacteriophages in a One Health approach	13
HIV co-receptor-tropism: cellular and molecular events behind the enigmatic co-receptor switching	12
Precise pathogen quantification by CRISPR-Cas: a sweet but tough nut to crack	11
Burkholderia in the genomic era: from taxonomy to the discovery of new antimicrobial secondary metabolites	11
Phage-bacterial evolutionary interactions: experimental models and complications	11
Food and gut originated bacteriocins involved in gut microbe-host interactions	11
Akkermansia muciniphila plays critical roles in host health	10
The high osmolarity glycerol (HOG) pathway in fungi^†	10
Listeria monocytogenes: review of pathogenesis and virulence determinants-targeted immunological assays	10
Metal-organic frameworks for diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases	10
Multiple potential strategies for the application of nisin and derivatives	10
Microbial symbionts of insects as a source of new antimicrobials: a review	10
Bacteriophages: the dawn of a new era in periodontal microbiology?	9
The implication of microbiome in lungs cancer: mechanisms and strategies of cancer growth, diagnosis and therapy	9
Antimicrobial peptides as promising antibiotic adjuvants to combat drug-resistant pathogens	9
Periodontitis increases the risk of gastrointestinal dysfunction: an update on the plausible pathogenic molecular mechanisms	9
Towards the discovery of novel molecular clocks in Prokaryotes	9
Antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa : mechanisms and emerging treatment	9
Oral host-microbe interactions investigated in 3D organotypic models	8
Leveraging big data bioinformatics approaches to extract knowledge from Staphylococcus aureus public omics data	8

Gut microbiota–lncRNA/circRNA crosstalk: implications for different diseases	8
Deciphering the role of gut metabolites in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	8
The link between obesity and the gut microbiota and immune system in early-life	8
Outer membrane proteins and vesicles as promising vaccine candidates against Vibrio spp. infections	8
Addressing low-density malaria infections in India and other endemic part of the world—the opportune time?	8
Interactions between the foreign body reaction andStaphylococcus aureusbiomaterial-associated infection. Winning strategies in the derby on biomaterial implant surfaces	7
Ureaplasma infections: update on epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, and pathogenesis	7
Post-transcriptional control of antifungal resistance in human fungal pathogens	7
Role of the oral microbiome, metabolic pathways, and novel diagnostic tools in intra-oral halitosis: a comprehensive update	7
Modulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress response pathways by respiratory viruses	7
Human microbiota colonization and pancreatic ductal carcinoma	7
Nisin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria and approaches to circumvent resistance for successful therapeutic use	7
Small investments with big returns: environmental genomic bioprospecting of microbial life	7
Integrative Conjugative Elements (ICEs) of the SXT/R391 family drive adaptation and evolution in γ-Proteobacteria	7
Antimicrobial and antibiofilm properties of procyanidins: potential for clinical and biotechnological applications	6
Current types of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCC mec ) in clinically relevant coagulase-negative staphylococcal (CoNS) species	6
Bacillusspore-forming probiotics: benefits with concerns?	6
Relevance of organ(s)-on-a-chip systems to the investigation of food-gut microbiota-host interactions	6
Ocular surface microbiota dysbiosis contributes to the high prevalence of dry eye disease in diabetic patients	6
Community-wide changes reflecting bacterial interspecific interactions in multispecies biofilms	6
Prospective and challenges of live bacterial therapeutics from a superhero Escherichia coli Nissle 1917	6
Rapid diagnosis and precision treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection in clinical settings	6
Type IV pili are involved in phenotypes associated with Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis	6
Damage-associated molecular patterns in viral infection: potential therapeutic targets	6
Multidrug-resistantTrichosporonspecies: underestimated fungal pathogens posing imminent threats in clinical settings	6
Unnatural amino acids: promising implications for the development of new antimicrobial peptides	5
Advances in mining and expressing microbial biosynthetic gene clusters	5
Quorum sensing in biofilms: a key mechanism to target in ecotoxicological studies	5
Metabolic flexibility and extensive adaptability governing multiple drug resistance and enhanced virulence in Candida albicans	5
Targeting bioinformatics tools to study the dissemination and spread of antibiotic resistant genes in the environment and clinical settings	5
Microbial biosynthesis of nucleos(t)ide analogs: applications, and engineering optimization	5
Water in bacterial biofilms: pores and channels, storage and transport functions	5
Molecular imaging of bacterial biofilms—a systematic review	5
Biosynthesis, regulation, and biological significance of fumonisins in fungi: current status and prospects	4
Bioactive compounds: a goldmine for defining new strategies against pathogenic bacterial biofilms?	4
Exploring halophilic environments as a source of new antibiotics	4
Nasal microbiome dynamics: decoding the intricate nexus in the progression of respiratory and neurological diseases	4
The genus Paraconiothyrium: species concepts, biological functions, and secondary metabolites	4
Bifidobacterial biofilms as next-generation probiotics and their role in intestinal microbiocenosis	4
Peptide-based strategies for overcoming biofilm-associated infections: a comprehensive review	4
Could Neisseria gonorrhoeae have carcinogenic potential? A critical review of current evidence	4
Lung-brain axis	4
Acinetobacter baumannii subunit vaccines: recent progress and challenges	4
The complement system as a key modulator of the oral microbiome in health and disease	4
Recent developments in less known and multi-resistant fungal opportunists	4