OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infectious Diseases is 6. 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
Long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome: putative pathophysiology, risk factors, and treatments	645
Novel coronavirus in a 15-day-old neonate with clinical signs of sepsis, a case report	131
Few bacterial co-infections but frequent empiric antibiotic use in the early phase of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: results from a multicentre retrospective cohort study in The Netherlands	108
Previous and active tuberculosis increases risk of death and prolongs recovery in patients with COVID-19	85
Risk factors for disease progression in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study	76
Predictive value of National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) for intensive care unit admission in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection	74
Effectiveness of surgical, KF94, and N95 respirator masks in blocking SARS-CoV-2: a controlled comparison in 7 patients	47
Time course of anosmia and dysgeusia in patients with mild SARS-CoV-2 infection	45
In-flight transmission cluster of COVID-19: a retrospective case series	43
A case of imported COVID-19 diagnosed by PCR-positive lower respiratory specimen but with PCR-negative throat swabs	42
Duration of SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding during COVID-19 infection	40
Registered clinical trials investigating treatment of long COVID: a scoping review and recommendations for research	39
Evaluation of the Biofire Filmarray Pneumonia panel plus for lower respiratory tract infections	38
N-acetyl-cysteine reduces the risk for mechanical ventilation and mortality in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a two-center retrospective cohort study	35
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	30
Women report more symptoms and impaired quality of life: a survey of Finnish COVID-19 survivors	29
Covid-19 in kidney transplant recipients: a systematic review of the case series available three months into the pandemic	29
Comparison of the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized adult COVID-19 and influenza patients – a prospective observational study	28
Re-infection by COVID-19: a real threat for the future management of pandemia?	27
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	27
Increased CD4/CD8 ratio as a risk factor for critical illness in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a retrospective multicentre study	27
A systematic review on the recurrence of SARS-CoV-2 virus: frequency, risk factors, and possible explanations	26
Diagnostic accuracy of nasopharyngeal swab, nasal swab and saliva swab samples for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-PCR	24
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient recovered from COVID-19	23

Remdesivir for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials	22
Anterior nasal versus nasal mid-turbinate sampling for a SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid test: does localisation or professional collection matter?	21
A case report of serious haemolysis in a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient COVID-19 patient receiving hydroxychloroquine	20
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 detection and reversed RT-PCR results in mild or asymptomatic patients	19
Mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients was associated with the COVID-19 admission rate during the first year of the pandemic in Sweden	19
Corticosteroids and tocilizumab reduce in-hospital mortality in severe COVID-19 pneumonia: a retrospective study in a Spanish hospital	19
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	18
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales infections in COVID-19 patients	18
High rate of bacterial respiratory tract co-infections upon admission amongst moderate to severe COVID-19 patients	18
Clinical impact of human metapneumovirus infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Convalescent plasma treatment in severely immunosuppressed patients hospitalized with COVID-19: an observational study of 28 cases	17
Increased transmissibility of the alpha SARS-CoV-2 variant: evidence from contact tracing data in Oslo, January to February 2021	17
Seroprevalence and levels of IgG antibodies after COVID-19 infection or vaccination	16
Community use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 lockdown	16
Predominance of hospital-acquired bloodstream infection in patients with Covid-19 pneumonia	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
Association between SARS-CoV-2 and exposure risks in health care workers and university employees – a cross-sectional study	15
Mortality from liver diseases attributable to hepatitis B and C in the EU/EEA – descriptive analysis and estimation of 2015 baseline	15
Head-to-head comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for tuberculosis: a meta-analysis	15
Global epidemiology and changing clinical presentations of invasive meningococcal disease: a narrative review	14
Recurrent neurosurgical site infection by extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa treated with cefiderocol: a case report and literature review	14
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Portugal following the third epidemic wave: results of the second National Serological Survey (ISN2COVID-19)	14
Early experience with COVID-19 patients at academic hospital in Southwestern United States	14
Lessons to learn from the current pandemic for future non-pharmaceutical interventions against the respiratory syncytial virus – nationwide register-study in Finland	14
Blockade of interleukin seventeen (IL-17A) with secukinumab in hospitalized COVID-19 patients – the BISHOP study	14
Positive RT-PCR test results after consecutively negative results in patients with COVID-19	14
Diarrhoea in adults with coronavirus disease—beyond incidence and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Patients presenting high fever with lymphadenopathy after COVID-19 vaccination were diagnosed with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis	13
Diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin for bacterial pneumonia in children – a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Prospective validation and comparison of COVID-GRAM, NEWS2, 4C mortality score, CURB-65 for the prediction of critical illness in COVID-19 patients	13
Early ICU-mortality in sepsis – causes, influencing factors and variability in clinical judgement: a retrospective cohort study	13
Visual scoring of chest CT at hospital admission predicts hospitalization time and intensive care admission in Covid-19	13
Low morbidity in Danish patients with common variable immunodeficiency disorder infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	13
Covid-19 antigen testing: better than we know? A test accuracy study	12
Positive RT-PCR in urine from an asymptomatic patient with novel coronavirus 2019 infection: a case report	12
COVID-19 and the eye: a review	12
Reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 – analysis of 23 cases from the literature	12
Aspirin enhances the clinical efficacy of anti-tuberculosis therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus	11
Low prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus antibodies in Norwegian blood donors	11
Tuberculosis relapse is more common than reinfection in Beijing, China	11
Diagnosis of pleural empyema/parapneumonic effusion by next-generation sequencing	11
Recurrent and persistent infection with SARS-CoV-2 – epidemiological data and case reports from Western Sweden, 2020	11
Socio-economic impacts of emerging infectious diseases in Africa	11
The increasing importance of Haemophilus influenzae in community-acquired pneumonia: results from a Danish cohort study	11
Age-dependent effects on infectivity and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection: results from nationwide contact tracing data in Greece	11
Early lactate area scores and serial blood lactate levels as prognostic markers for patients with septic shock: a systematic review	10
Enhancing the safety of frontline healthcare workers during coronavirus disease: a novel real-time remote audiovisual aided doffing approach	10
Incidence of community-onset extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae infections: an 11-year population-based study in Denmark	10
COVID-19 as a novel etiology of portal vein thrombosis: change in the current management concepts	10
Nationwide infection control strategy lowered seasonal respiratory infection rate: occupational health care perspective during the COVID-19 epidemic in Finland	10

Characteristics of patients discharged and readmitted after COVID-19 hospitalisation within a large integrated health system in the United States	10
Size distribution of exhaled aerosol particles containing SARS-CoV-2 RNA	9
Post discharge positive re-tests in COVID-19: common but clinically non-significant	9
Clinical significance of serum miR-487b in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma and its potential mechanism	9
Team-to-team transmission of COVID-19 in ice hockey games – a case series of players in Finnish ice hockey leagues	9
A case–control study of determinants for COVID-19 infection based on contact tracing in Dungun district, Terengganu state of Malaysia	9
Infective endocarditis in pregnancy from 2009 to 2019: the consequences of injection drug use	9
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae among kidney transplant recipients – insights on the risk of acquisition and CRE infection	9
Previous pulmonary tuberculosis enhances the risk of lung cancer: systematic reviews and meta-analysis	9
Linezolid for therapy of Staphylococcus aureus meningitis: a cohort study of 26 patients	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
Assessment of antibiotics use for children upper respiratory tract infections: a retrospective, cross-sectional study from Pakistan	8
Risk factors for 30-day mortality among patients with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteraemia	8
Occurrence and determinants of enterococcal bloodstream infections: a population-based study	8
Two-tiered SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion screening in the Netherlands and stability of nucleocapsid, spike protein domain 1 and neutralizing antibodies	8
Phenotypic synergy testing of ceftazidime–avibactam with aztreonam in a university hospital having high number of metallobetalactamase producing bacteria	8
Untargeted lipidomic differences between clinical strains of methicillin-sensitive and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	8
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	8
Effect of a multidisciplinary team on the treatment of hip and knee prosthetic joint infections: a single-centre study of 154 infections	8
Blood culture-negative infective endocarditis: a worse outcome? Results from a large multicentre retrospective Spanish cohort study	8
Antibiotics duration guided by biomarkers in hospitalized adult patients; a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
No evidence for vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in two neonates with mothers infected in the second trimester	8
Infant botulism: an underestimated threat	8
Changes in testing and incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae – the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the three Scandinavian countries	8
Lower plasma calcium associated with COVID-19, but not with disease severity: a two-centre retrospective cohort study	7
Contribution of NDM and OXA-type carbapenemases to carbapenem resistance in clinical Acinetobacter baumannii from Nigeria	7
A study of SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology in Italy: from early days to secondary effects after social distancing	7
The clinical impact of implementing GenMark ePlex blood culture panels for around-the-clock blood culture identification; a prospective observational study	7
Successful treatment with a short course of remdesivir in a case of prolonged COVID-19 in a lymphoma patient	7
Uncomplicated urinary tract infection in primary health care: presentation and clinical outcome	7
Validation of a risk score to predict patients at risk of critical illness with COVID-19	7
Changing indications for liver transplant: slow decline of hepatitis viruses in Italy	7
Low pre-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Finnish health care workers: a prospective cohort study	7
SARS-CoV-2 late shedding may be infectious between immunocompromised hosts	7
Dermatologists may need to pay more attention to herpes zoster during the pandemic of COVID-19	7
Atypical presentation of sexually-transmitted monkeypox lesions	7
Cytokine production and outcome in MDR versus non-MDR gram-negative bacteraemia and sepsis	7
Blood group O is associated with post-COVID-19 syndrome in outpatients with a low comorbidity index	7
Impact of the lockdown on the burden of COVID-19 in outpatient care in France, spring 2020	7
Antibiotic resistance among major pathogens compared to hospital treatment guidelines and antibiotic use in Nordic hospitals 2010–2018	7
Immunobiology and nanotherapeutics of severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2): a current update	7
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
Mortality of COVID-19 is associated with comorbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	6
Waning of humoral immunity depending on the types of COVID-19 vaccine	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
Safety and outcomes of an early discharge strategy with oxygen home therapy in stable severe COVID-19 patients	6
Splenectomy and risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, and death	6
Antibody levels remain high to one-year’s follow-up after moderate and severe COVID-19, but not after mild cases	6
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	6
Synergistic activities of ceftazidime-avibactam in combination with different antibiotics against colistin-nonsusceptible clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa	6
Contagiousness in treated HIV-1 infection	6
Laboratory abnormalities related to prolonged hospitalization in COVID-19	6
Persistence of antibodies for measles among vaccinated medical students in Italy	6
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteraemia: 61 cases in a tertiary hospital in Denmark	6
Serum levels of neurofilament light chain, neuron-specific enolase and S100 calcium-binding protein B during acute bacterial meningitis: a prospective cohort study	6
Predictors and characteristics of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome in healthcare workers	6
Parvovirus B19 in kidney transplantation: key points and essential pitfalls to know	6
SARS-COV-2 seroprevalence among all healthcare workers in a tertiary hospital in Spain	6
Lower serum alpha 1 antitrypsin levels in patients with severe COVID-19 compared with patients hospitalized due to non-COVID-19 pneumonia	6