OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infectious Diseases is 5. 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
Long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome: putative pathophysiology, risk factors, and treatments	777
Registered clinical trials investigating treatment of long COVID: a scoping review and recommendations for research	51
N-acetyl-cysteine reduces the risk for mechanical ventilation and mortality in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a two-center retrospective cohort study	38
Lombardy, Northern Italy: COVID-19 second wave less severe and deadly than the first? A preliminary investigation	32
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 among vaccinated health care workers	31
Women report more symptoms and impaired quality of life: a survey of Finnish COVID-19 survivors	30
Comparison of the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized adult COVID-19 and influenza patients – a prospective observational study	29
Diagnostic accuracy of nasopharyngeal swab, nasal swab and saliva swab samples for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR	28
A systematic review on the recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 virus: frequency, risk factors, and possible explanations	28
High level of protection against COVID-19 after two doses of BNT162b2 vaccine in the working age population – first results from a cohort study in Southern Sweden	26
Male predominance in disease severity and mortality in a low Covid-19 epidemic and low case-fatality area – a population-based registry study	25
Remdesivir for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials	25
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient recovered from COVID-19	23
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales infections in COVID-19 patients	23
Mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated with the COVID-19 admission rate during the first year of the pandemic in Sweden	23
Anterior nasal versus nasal mid-turbinate sampling for a SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid test: does localisation or professional collection matter?	22
Size distribution of exhaled aerosol particles containing SARS-CoV-2 RNA	22
Corticosteroids and tocilizumab reduce in-hospital mortality in severe COVID-19 pneumonia: a retrospective study in a Spanish hospital	20
Clinical impact of human metapneumovirus infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Low rate of COVID-19 seroconversion in health-care workers at a Department of Infectious Diseases in Sweden during the later phase of the first wave; a prospective longitudinal seroepidemiological stu	19
High rate of bacterial respiratory tract co-infections upon admission amongst moderate to severe COVID-19 patients	19
Increased transmissibility of the alpha SARS-CoV-2 variant: evidence from contact tracing data in Oslo, January to February 2021	19
Patients presenting high fever with lymphadenopathy after COVID-19 vaccination were diagnosed with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis	17
Seroprevalence and levels of IgG antibodies after COVID-19 infection or vaccination	17
Association between SARS-CoV-2 and exposure risks in health care workers and university employees – a cross-sectional study	17

Convalescent plasma treatment in severely immunosuppressed patients hospitalized with COVID-19: an observational study of 28 cases	17
Blockade of interleukin seventeen (IL-17A) with secukinumab in hospitalized COVID-19 patients – the BISHOP study	16
Pneumonia, gastrointestinal symptoms, comorbidities, and coinfections as factors related to a lengthier hospital stay in children with COVID-19—analysis of a paediatric part of Polish register SARSTer	16
Recurrent neurosurgical site infection by extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa treated with cefiderocol: a case report and literature review	16
Global epidemiology and changing clinical presentations of invasive meningococcal disease: a narrative review	15
COVID-19 and the eye: a review	15
Prospective validation and comparison of COVID-GRAM, NEWS2, 4C mortality score, CURB-65 for the prediction of critical illness in COVID-19 patients	14
Socio-economic impacts of emerging infectious diseases in Africa	14
Diarrhoea in adults with coronavirus disease—beyond incidence and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
The increasing importance of Haemophilus influenzae in community-acquired pneumonia: results from a Danish cohort study	14
Lessons to learn from the current pandemic for future non-pharmaceutical interventions against the respiratory syncytial virus – nationwide register-study in Finland	14
Previous pulmonary tuberculosis enhances the risk of lung cancer: systematic reviews and meta-analysis	14
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Portugal following the third epidemic wave: results of the second National Serological Survey (ISN2COVID-19)	14
Visual scoring of chest CT at hospital admission predicts hospitalization time and intensive care admission in Covid-19	13
Age-dependent effects on infectivity and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection: results from nationwide contact tracing data in Greece	13
Reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 – analysis of 23 cases from the literature	13
Low morbidity in Danish patients with common variable immunodeficiency disorder infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	13
Mortality of COVID-19 is associated with comorbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	12
Team-to-team transmission of COVID-19 in ice hockey games – a case series of players in Finnish ice hockey leagues	12
Covid-19 antigen testing: better than we know? A test accuracy study	12
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae among kidney transplant recipients – insights on the risk of acquisition and CRE infection	12
Diagnosis of pleural empyema/parapneumonic effusion by next-generation sequencing	11
Infective endocarditis in pregnancy from 2009 to 2019: the consequences of injection drug use	11
Nationwide infection control strategy lowered seasonal respiratory infection rate: occupational health care perspective during the COVID-19 epidemic in Finland	11
Recurrent and persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 – epidemiological data and case reports from Western Sweden, 2020	11
Blood culture-negative infective endocarditis: a worse outcome? Results from a large multicentre retrospective Spanish cohort study	11
Characteristics of patients discharged and readmitted after COVID-19 hospitalisation within a large integrated health system in the United States	11
A case–control study of determinants for COVID-19 infection based on contact tracing in Dungun district, Terengganu state of Malaysia	10
Waning of humoral immunity depending on the types of COVID-19 vaccine	10
Antibiotics duration guided by biomarkers in hospitalized adult patients; a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Clinical significance of serum miR-487b in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma and its potential mechanism	10
Atypical presentation of sexually-transmitted monkeypox lesions	10
Untargeted lipidomic differences between clinical strains of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	10
Enhancing the safety of frontline healthcare workers during coronavirus disease: a novel real-time remote audiovisual aided doffing approach	10
Lower plasma calcium associated with COVID-19, but not with disease severity: a two-centre retrospective cohort study	9
Impact of the lockdown on the burden of COVID-19 in outpatient care in France, spring 2020	9
Data-driven estimation of change points reveals correlation between face mask use and accelerated curtailing of the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy	9
Effect of a multidisciplinary team on the treatment of hip and knee prosthetic joint infections: a single-centre study of 154 infections	9
Two-tiered SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion screening in the Netherlands and stability of nucleocapsid, spike protein domain 1 and neutralizing antibodies	9
Exosomes: from biology to immunotherapy in infectious diseases	9
Increased SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors after the second pandemic wave in South-Eastern Italy: evidence for asymptomatic young donors as potential virus spreaders	9
Changes in testing and incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae – the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the three Scandinavian countries	9
Best management of patients with an acute sore throat – a critical analysis of current evidence and a consensus of experts from different countries and traditions	9
Parvovirus B19 in kidney transplantation: key points and essential pitfalls to know	9
Infant botulism: an underestimated threat	9
Q fever vertebral osteomyelitis among adults: a case series and literature review	8
The application of nanopore targeted sequencing for pathogen diagnosis in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of patients with pneumonia: a prospective multicenter study	8
Predictors and characteristics of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome in healthcare workers	8
Antibiotic resistance among major pathogens compared to hospital treatment guidelines and antibiotic use in Nordic hospitals 2010–2018	8
Safety and outcomes of an early discharge strategy with oxygen home therapy in stable severe COVID-19 patients	8

Lower serum alpha 1 antitrypsin levels in patients with severe COVID-19 compared with patients hospitalized due to non-COVID-19 pneumonia	8
Blood group O is associated with post-COVID-19 syndrome in outpatients with a low comorbidity index	8
Global trends, regional differences and age distribution for the incidence of HIV and tuberculosis co-infection from 1990 to 2019: results from the global burden of disease study 2019	8
Successful treatment with a short course of remdesivir in a case of prolonged COVID-19 in a lymphoma patient	8
Immunobiology and nanotherapeutics of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2): a current update	8
Splenectomy and risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, and death	8
Novel clinical and immunological features associated with persistent post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 after six months of follow-up: a pilot study	8
Low pre-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Finnish health care workers: a prospective cohort study	8
Evaluation of anti-nucleocapsid level variation to assess SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in a vaccinated population	7
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteraemia: 61 cases in a tertiary hospital in Denmark	7
Presence of Streptococcus pyogenes in the throat in invasive Group A Streptococcal disease: a prospective two-year study in two health districts, Finland	7
SARS-CoV-2 late shedding may be infectious between immunocompromised hosts	7
Antibody levels remain high to one-year’s follow-up after moderate and severe COVID-19, but not after mild cases	7
Clinical and genomic characterisation of a fatal Puumala orthohantavirus case with low levels of neutralising antibodies	7
Cytokine production and outcome in MDR versus non-MDR gram-negative bacteraemia and sepsis	7
Excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran	7
Successful treatment of persisting SARS-CoV-2 infection in an immunocompromised patient with repeated nirmatrelvir/ritonavir courses: a case report	7
Prevention of acquired invasive fungal infection with decontamination regimen in mechanically ventilated ICU patients: a pre/post observational study	7
Increasing incidence of pyogenic liver abscess in Southern Sweden: a population-based study from 2011 to 2020	7
Serum levels of neurofilament light chain, neuron-specific enolase and S100 calcium-binding protein B during acute bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study	7
Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in a Danish region between 2011 and 2021: evaluation of trends in diagnostic codes	7
Utility of plasma cell-free DNA detection using homobifunctional imidoesters using a microfluidic system for diagnosing active tuberculosis	6
Characteristics of patients with ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) at the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
SARS-COV-2 seroprevalence among all healthcare workers in a tertiary hospital in Spain	6
Emergency department testing is feasible but ineffective to eliminate hepatitis C in Denmark	6
Severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C/A) after confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: a report of four adult cases	6
Risk stratification score screening for infective endocarditis in patients with Gram-positive bacteraemia	6
Time to positivity of blood cultures in bloodstream infections with Streptococcus dysgalactiae and association with outcome	6
Clinical characteristics and evaluation of the incidence of cryptococcosis in Finland 2004–2018	6
Adjunctive treatment with high-titre convalescent plasma in severely and critically ill COVID-19 patients – a safe but futile intervention. A comparative cohort study	6
Diagnostic accuracy of screening tests for patients suspected of COVID-19, a retrospective cohort study	6
Equal effect of vancomycin lock with or without heparin in treatment of central venous catheter related blood stream infections – an observational study in palliative home care	6
Evaluation of TB-LAMP assay for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in children	6
Financial conflicts of interest between infectious diseases clinical practice guideline authors and the pharmaceutical industry in Japan	6
New-onset diabetic ketoacidosis with purpura fulminans in a child with COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome	5
Enterococcus hirae infections in the clinical practice	5
Evaluation of the GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay performance in sputum samples with various characteristics from presumed pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Shiselweni region, Eswatini	5
Risk of severe illness in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 of Delta variant: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Evaluation of the rapid antigen test CerTest SARS-CoV-2 as an alternative COVID-19 diagnosis technique	5
Risk factors for mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a study in Milan, Italy	5
Development and validation of a predictive model to determine the level of care in patients confirmed with COVID-19	5
Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 infections in healthcare workers with high and low exposures to Covid-19 patients in a Norwegian University Hospital	5
Central pulmonary embolism in patients with Covid-19	5
Psychosis associated with suspected SARS-CoV-2 encephalitis with response to steroids: a case report	5
Dalbavancin two dose regimen for the treatment of prosthetic joint infections: new possible options for difficult to treat infectious diseases	5
Point prevalence survey to estimate antimicrobial use in a tertiary care university hospital in Pakistan using WHO methodology: findings and implications	5
Cases of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection with Omicron BA.2 post breakthrough infection with Delta and Kappa variants	5
Epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility in anaerobic bacteraemia: a 15-year retrospective study in South-Eastern Hungary	5
Cryptosporidiosis in Finland is predominantly of domestic origin: investigation of increased reporting, 1995–2020	5
The association between COVID-19 cases and deaths and web-based public inquiries	5
Sensitisation and allergic reactions to alpha-1,3-galactose in Podlasie, Poland, an area endemic for tick-borne infections	5
Hospital capacity and admission rate may be a factor of importance to mortality in COVID-19	5
Health-related quality of life and long-term symptoms among patients with non-severe covid-19 – a prospective cohort study	5
Risk factors of septic shock development and thirty-day mortality with a predictive model in adult candidemia patients in intensive care units	5