OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virulence is 31. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pathogenicity and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus	452
COVID-19 evolution during the pandemic – Implications of new SARS-CoV-2 variants on disease control and public health policies	129
The regulation of hyphae growth in Candida albicans	120
Pathogenesis and virulence of Candida albicans	103
Pathogenesis and virulence of herpes simplex virus	86
Pathogenicity and virulence of Clostridium perfringens	78
Autophagy and SARS-CoV-2 infection: A possible smart targeting of the autophagy pathway	72
Immune dysregulation and system pathology in COVID-19	70
Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology	65
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) exposure in pet cats and dogs in Minnesota, USA	62
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae is emerging as an increasingly prevalent K. pneumoniae pathotype responsible for nosocomial and healthcare-associated infections in Beijing, China	59
Subtilisin-like Pr1 proteases marking the evolution of pathogenicity in a wide-spectrum insect-pathogenic fungus	58
Trehalose and bacterial virulence	55
Pathogenicity and Virulence ofLegionella: Intracellular replication and host response	53
Characteristics of asymptomatic COVID-19 infection and progression: A multicenter, retrospective study	50
Maternal-neonatal listeriosis	48
Pathogenicity and virulence of Japanese encephalitis virus: Neuroinflammation and neuronal cell damage	46
Enterovirus 71 induces neural cell apoptosis and autophagy through promoting ACOX1 downregulation and ROS generation	45
Pathogenicity and virulence of Marburg virus	44
Pathogenicity and virulence of the liver flukesFasciola hepaticaandFasciolaGiganticathat cause the zoonosis Fasciolosis	41
Development of a TaqMan-probe-based multiplex real-time PCR for the simultaneous detection of emerging and reemerging swine coronaviruses	40
Malate enhances survival of zebrafish against Vibrio alginolyticus infection in the same manner as taurine	39
Transcriptomic analyses reveal comprehensive responses of insect hemocytes to mycopathogen Beauveria bassiana, and fungal virulence-related cell wall protein assists pathogen to evade host cellular de	38
Putative determinants of virulence in Melissococcus plutonius, the bacterial agent causing European foulbrood in honey bees	36
An Organ System-Based Synopsis ofPseudomonas aeruginosaVirulence	35

Galleria mellonella as a screening tool to study virulence factors of Aspergillus fumigatus	33
Therapeutic implications of C. albicans-S. aureus mixed biofilm in a murine subcutaneous catheter model of polymicrobial infection	33
Genetic diversity and evolution of the virulence plasmids encoding aerobactin and salmochelin in Klebsiella pneumoniae	33
The pathogenicity and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii	32
Functional analysis of seven regulators of G protein signaling (RGSs) in the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora	32
Pathogenicity & virulence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae	31
PE_PGRS proteins ofMycobacterium tuberculosis: A specialized molecular task force at the forefront of host–pathogen interaction	31
Understanding the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) exposure in companion, captive, wild, and farmed animals	31