OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Emerging Microbes & Infections is 44. 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
The significant immune escape of pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron	294
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant shows less efficient replication and fusion activity when compared with Delta variant in TMPRSS2-expressed cells	289
Omicron variant showed lower neutralizing sensitivity than other SARS-CoV-2 variants to immune sera elicited by vaccines after boost	278
Effectiveness of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines against the Delta variant infection in Guangzhou: a test-negative case–control real-world study	195
Lessons learned 1 year after SARS-CoV-2 emergence leading to COVID-19 pandemic	193
SARS-CoV-2 proteases PLpro and 3CLpro cleave IRF3 and critical modulators of inflammatory pathways (NLRP12 and TAB1): implications for disease presentation across species	162
Antibody titres decline 3-month post-vaccination with BNT162b2	138
Thein vitroantiviral activity of lactoferrin against common human coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 is mediated by targeting the heparan sulfate co-receptor	125
Emergence and spread of novel H5N8, H5N5 and H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic avian influenza in 2020	121
Heterologous prime-boost: breaking the protective immune response bottleneck of COVID-19 vaccine candidates	116
Genotype I African swine fever viruses emerged in domestic pigs in China and caused chronic infection	110
Susceptibility of rabbits to SARS-CoV-2	104
Monkeypox virus emerges from the shadow of its more infamous cousin: family biology matters	99
Homologous or heterologous booster of inactivated vaccine reduces SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant escape from neutralizing antibodies	96
Lessons learned from the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Hong Kong in early 2022	83
Pre-optimized phage therapy on secondary Acinetobacter baumannii infection in four critical COVID-19 patients	77
African swine fever control and prevention: an update on vaccine development	72
Boosting with heterologous vaccines effectively improves protective immune responses of the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine	72
Fast inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by UV-C and ozone exposure on different materials	70
Cross-reactive antibody against human coronavirus OC43 spike protein correlates with disease severity in COVID-19 patients: a retrospective study	68
Carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa –an emerging challenge	67
A household case evidences shorter shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in naturally infected cats compared to their human owners	66
Infection and transmission of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 and its alpha variant in pregnant white-tailed deer	64
Alarming situation of emerging H5 and H7 avian influenza and effective control strategies	62
Global dissemination of H5N1 influenza viruses bearing the clade 2.3.4.4b HA gene and biologic analysis of the ones detected in China	59

Novel dual multiplex real-time RT-PCR assays for the rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2, influenza A/B, and respiratory syncytial virus using the BD MAX open system	59
Long-term humoral immunogenicity, safety and protective efficacy of inactivated vaccine against COVID-19 (CoviVac) in preclinical studies	57
Omicron variant susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies induced in children by natural SARS-CoV-2 infection or COVID-19 vaccine	56
Metformin attenuated sepsis-related liver injury by modulating gut microbiota	55
A tandem-repeat dimeric RBD protein-based covid-19 vaccine zf2001 protects mice and nonhuman primates	54
Antibiotic resistance in hospital-acquired ESKAPE-E infections in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	52
Critical role of neutralizing antibody for SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and transmission	52
High estradiol and low testosterone levels are associated with critical illness in male but not in female COVID-19 patients: a retrospective cohort study	51
Novel H5N6 reassortants bearing the clade 2.3.4.4b HA gene of H5N8 virus have been detected in poultry and caused multiple human infections in China	50
Comparing real-life effectiveness of various COVID-19 vaccine regimens during the delta variant-dominant pandemic: a test-negative case-control study	49
Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in China	49
Colistin-phage combinations decrease antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii via changes in envelope architecture	48
Spike mutations contributing to the altered entry preference of SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.1 and BA.2	47
Experimental re-infected cats do not transmit SARS-CoV-2	47
Confirmation of fifth Candida auris clade by whole genome sequencing	46
Resistance evolution of hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 during treatment with tigecycline and polymyxin	46
COVID-19-associated cytokine storm syndrome and diagnostic principles: an old and new Issue	45
The interplay between emerging human coronavirus infections and autophagy	45
SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and COVID-19 severity	45
Beneficial effect of combinational methylprednisolone and remdesivir in hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection	44
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern in real-world: a literature review and meta-analysis	44