OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Virulence is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pathogenicity and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus	613
Pathogenesis and virulence of Candida albicans	169
COVID-19 evolution during the pandemic – Implications of new SARS-CoV-2 variants on disease control and public health policies	138
Pathogenesis and virulence of herpes simplex virus	137
Pathogenicity and virulence of Clostridium perfringens	113
Pathogenicity and virulence ofListeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology	80
Immune dysregulation and system pathology in COVID-19	77
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) exposure in pet cats and dogs in Minnesota, USA	69
Pathogenicity and virulence of Japanese encephalitis virus: Neuroinflammation and neuronal cell damage	68
Pathogenicity and Virulence ofLegionella: Intracellular replication and host response	66
Pathogenicity and virulence of the liver flukesFasciola hepaticaandFasciolaGiganticathat cause the zoonosis Fasciolosis	61
Pathogenicity and virulence of Marburg virus	57
Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	49
Pathogenesis and virulence of flavivirus infections	49
The pathogenicity and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii	47
Pathogenicity and virulence of Clostridioides difficile	46
An Organ System-Based Synopsis ofPseudomonas aeruginosaVirulence	45
Therapeutic implications of C. albicans-S. aureus mixed biofilm in a murine subcutaneous catheter model of polymicrobial infection	43
Glycosylation of viral proteins: Implication in virus–host interaction and virulence	42
Understanding the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) exposure in companion, captive, wild, and farmed animals	39
Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) for biofilm treatments. Possible synergy between aPDT and pulsed electric fields	37
Pathogenicity & virulence ofMycoplasma hyopneumoniae	37
Genetic diversity and evolution of the virulence plasmids encoding aerobactin and salmochelin in Klebsiella pneumoniae	36
Galleria mellonella as a screening tool to study virulence factors of Aspergillus fumigatus	36
Functional analysis of seven regulators of G protein signaling (RGSs) in the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora	35

Paeoniflorin reduce luxS/AI-2 system-controlled biofilm formation and virulence in Streptococcus suis	34
The hypermucoviscosity of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae confers the ability to evade neutrophil-mediated phagocytosis	34
Pathogenicity and virulence regulation of Vibrio cholerae at the interface of host-gut microbiome interactions	34
From environmental adaptation to host survival: Attributes that mediate pathogenicity of Candida auris	33
AP-1 signaling pathway promotes pro-IL-1β transcription to facilitate NLRP3 inflammasome activation upon influenza A virus infection	33
Infection strategies of mycoplasmas: Unraveling the panoply of virulence factors	33
Virulence ofCandida aurisfrom different clinical origins inCaenorhabditis elegansandGalleria mellonellahost models	33
Pathogenicity and virulence of Hepatitis B virus	33