OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Infection and Immunity is 26. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of Dihydroartemisinin against Cystic Echinococcosis In Vitro and In Vivo	191
Expression of CD117 (c-Kit) on Circulating B Cells in Pediatric Schistosomiasis	90
Contribution of Hfq to gene regulation and virulence in Histophilus somni	70
Egress of Listeria monocytogenes from Mesenteric Lymph Nodes Depends on Intracellular Replication and Cell-to-Cell Spread	64
A Member of an Ancient Family of Bacterial Amino Acids Transporters Contributes to Chlamydia Nutritional Virulence and Immune Evasion	60
Mucosal Infection with Unmasked Candida albicans Cells Impacts Disease Progression in a Host Niche-Specific Manner	59
Mouse models of tuberculosis uniformly featuring hypoxic necrotic lesions and poor response to chemotherapy	53
Specific interaction between Group B Streptococcus CC17 hypervirulent clone and phagocytes	51
Legionella pneumophila Cas2 Promotes the Expression of Small Heat Shock Protein C2 That Is Required for Thermal Tolerance and Optimal Intracellular Infection	50
A Staphylococcal Glucosaminidase Drives Inflammatory Responses by Processing Peptidoglycan Chains to Physiological Lengths	38
Identification of Babesia microti immunoreactive antigens by phage display cDNA screen	36
Acute Infection with a Tobramycin-Induced Small Colony Variant of Staphylococcus aureus Causes Increased Inflammation in the Cystic Fibrosis Rat Lung	33
The hypervirulent Type-1/Type-17 phenotype of Cryptococcus neoformans clinical isolates is specific to A/J mice	33
Bacterial surface lipoproteins mediate epithelial microinvasion by Streptococcus pneumoniae	33
Legionella pneumophila inhibits type I interferon signaling to avoid cell-intrinsic host cell defense	32
Mucosal vaccination in a murine gnotobiotic model of Giardia lamblia infection	31
Infectivity of a pathogenicity-attenuated Chlamydia muridarum mutant in the genital tract	31
Candida albicans enhances iron uptake to maintain fluconazole resistance	30
Effects of Trichinella spiralis and its serine protease inhibitors on autophagy of host small intestinal cells	29
Heterologous prime-boost immunization of two-component vaccine candidate PWDVax protected pigs against F18 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli post-weaning diarrhea	29
Effect of Probiotic E. coli Nissle 1917 Supplementation on the Growth Performance, Immune Responses, Intestinal Morphology, and Gut Microbes of Campylobacter jejuni Infected Chickens	29
Two MP2CL5 Antigen Vaccines from Naegleria fowleri Stimulate the Immune Response against Meningitis in the BALB/c Model	29
Fungal mechanisms of intracellular survival: what can we learn from bacterial pathogens?	28
para -Aminobenzoic Acid Biosynthesis Is Required for Listeria monocytogenes Growth and Pathogenesis	27
Expansion of CD101⁻ neutrophils drives susceptibility to hyperyersiniabactin-producing Yersinia infection in hereditary hemochromatotic hosts	27

HnRNPA2B1 tunes antimycobacterial immune responses in macrophages through alternative splicing of Irgm1