OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Medical Microbiology is 10. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Fungi of the human gut microbiota: Roles and significance	102
Modulation of inflammatory responses by gastrointestinal Prevotella spp. – From associations to functional studies	50
The role of fecal sulfur metabolome in inflammatory bowel diseases	45
Strain inheritance and neonatal gut microbiota development: A meta-analysis	37
Emergence of linezolid-resistance in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117 associated with increased linezolid-consumption	31
Establishing causality in Salmonella-microbiota-host interaction: The use of gnotobiotic mouse models and synthetic microbial communities	30
Reverse vaccinology approach for the identifications of potential vaccine candidates against Salmonella	25
Orientia tsutsugamushi: The dangerous yet neglected foe from the East	23
Recent advances in culture-based gut microbiome research	22
The effect of gut microbiota on the intestinal lipidome of mice	21
Discovery of myricetin as an inhibitor against Streptococcus mutans and an anti-adhesion approach to biofilm formation	21
Global epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in commensal Neisseria species: A systematic review	21
Teleological cooption of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE/PPE proteins as porins: Role in molecular immigration and emigration	20
Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridioides difficile in Germany, 2014–2019	19
The role of the blood group-related glycosyltransferases FUT2 and B4GALNT2 in susceptibility to infectious disease	19
Pathogenicity and genomic features of vapN-harboring Rhodococcus equi isolated from human patients	18
Molecular and epidemiological surveillance of polymyxin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from Brazil with multiple mgrB gene mutations	18
A novel mutation of walK confers vancomycin-intermediate resistance in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus	16
Can Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection lead to cancer? Call for a paradigm shift in understanding TB and cancer	15
Microbiota profiling in aging-associated inflammation and liver degeneration	14
K+ and its role in virulence of Acinetobacter baumannii	14
Microbial diagnosis of endophthalmitis using nanopore amplicon sequencing	14
Regulation of the gut barrier by carbohydrates from diet – Underlying mechanisms and possible clinical implications	14
Cutibacterium acnes phylogenetic type IC and II isolated from patients with non-acne diseases exhibit high-level biofilm formation	14
Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients induce neutrophil extracellular traps with different morphologies that could correlate with their disease severity	13

Rothia aeria and Rothia dentocariosa as biofilm builders in infective endocarditis	13
Characterization of the Atl-mediated staphylococcal internalization mechanism	13
Comprehensive investigation of antibiotic resistance gene content in cfiA-harboring Bacteroides fragilis isolates of human and animal origins by whole genome sequencing	13
The distribution of mutations and hotspots in transcription regulators of resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pumps in tigecycline non-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii in China	12
Testosterone regulates the intracellular bacterial community formation of uropathogenic Escherichia coli in prostate cells via STAT3	12
Defence and adaptation mechanisms of the intestinal epithelium upon infection	12
Pilus islets and the clonal spread of piliated Streptococcus pneumoniae: A review	12
Strain and host-cell dependent role of type-1 fimbriae in the adherence phenotype of super-shed Escherichia coli O157:H7	10
Anti-inflammatory effect of chlorogenic acid in Klebsiella pneumoniae-induced pneumonia by inactivating the p38MAPK pathway	10
Molecular characterization and antimicrobial resistance of group A streptococcus isolates in streptococcal toxic shock syndrome cases in Japan from 2013 to 2018	10
ArgD of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a functional N-acetylornithine aminotransferase with moonlighting function as an effective immune modulator	10
Rectal swabs are a reliable method of assessing the colonic microbiome	10