OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of APMIS is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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Routine use of MSI testing in colorectal cancer using a proposed algorithm	134
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APMIS 2022 focus issue on human microbiome in disease and pathology	40
Misleading mental models: Ceci n’est pas un biofilm	38
A metatranscriptomic approach to explore longitudinal tissue specimens from non‐healing diabetes related foot ulcers	30
Aquaporins in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma	28
Immune responses to mRNA‐based vaccines given as a third COVID‐19 vaccine dose in people living with HIV—a literature review	25
Performance of automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing for the detection of antimicrobial resistance in gram‐negative bacteria: a NordicAST study	25
Bacterial invasion of the submicron osteocyte lacuna–canaliculi network (OLCN): a part of osteomyelitis disease biology	24
Toll‐like receptors 3, 7, 8, and 9 in gastric cancer	21
Fast processing of gynecologic cancer tissue in Danish Cancer Biobank makes them well‐suited for biomarker studies	19
Risk of orthopaedic implant infection during bacteraemia	19
Anti‐PD‐L1 chimeric antigen receptor natural killer cell: Characterization and functional analysis	18
Short communication: dog bite and back pain	18
Automated assessment of Ki‐67 proliferation index in neuroendocrine tumors by deep learning	18
Bacterial aerobic respiration is a major consumer of oxygen in sputum from patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection	16
Association of Toll‐like receptor 2 rs111200466 polymorphism with low serum levels of IL‐33 in early childhood	16
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Aneurysmal bone cyst and osteoblastoma after neoadjuvant denosumab: histologic spectrum and potential diagnostic pitfalls	15
Bacteriophage therapy and infective endocarditis – is it realistic?	14
Dynamic distribution of systemically administered antibiotics in orthopeadically relevant target tissues and settings	14
Estimated incidence of symptomatic Lyme borreliosis cases in five southern coastal counties in Norway, 2022	14
Injection site microflora in persons with diabetes: why needle reuse is not associated with increased infections?	13
Lactams Exhibit Potent Antifungal Activity Against Monospecies and Multispecies Interkingdom Biofilms on a Novel Hydrogel Skin Model	12
Effects of changes in SHP2 expression on liver fibrosis by influencing the apoptosis of hepatic stellate cells	12

Association of TLR4 polymorphisms (Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) with sepsis: a meta‐analysis and trial sequence analysis	12
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Understanding the biofilm development of Acinetobacter baumannii and novel strategies to combat infection	11
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Exploring the immune‐modulating properties of boswellic acid in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis	10
Characteristics of de novo cancer in liver transplant recipients	10
Prevalence, molecular markers, and outcome of bronchial squamous carcinoma in situ in high‐risk subjects	10
Importance of C24:2 sulfatide	10
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High seroprevalence of SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies in healthcare workers in COVID‐19 wards indicates an occupational hazard—a prospective cohort study during the first year of the	10
Prevalence of paediatric hyperinflammatory conditions in paediatric and adolescent hospitalized COVID‐19 patients: a systematic review and meta‐analysis	10
Tunneled Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients: Frequency, Risk Factors, and Outcomes—A 10‐Year Analysis	10
Inhibition of miR‐222‐3p Alleviates Acute Pancreatitis by Negatively Regulating the Expression of SIRT1	10
Performance of PCR‐based syndromic testing compared to bacterial culture in patients with suspected pneumonia applying microscopy for quality assessment	9
Immunohistochemical detection of double‐stranded RNA in formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue	9
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of connective tissue disease complicated with bronchiectasis and pulmonary infection	9
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bone and joint pathogens using isothermal microcalorimetry	9
Biomarkers for iron metabolism among patients hospitalized with community‐acquired pneumonia caused by infection with SARS‐CoV‐2, bacteria, and influenza	9
Inflammatory mediators in bacterial vaginosis: The role of cytokines	9
Detection of Anti‐CMV TCR CDR3s via Blood and Tumor Exome Files Correlates With Increased Survival for Stomach Adenocarcinoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma	9
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New contributions on chronic low back pain: disc infection or contaminated cultures?	8
Pan‐Cancer Analysis Reveals SKA3 as a Potential Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker	8
No Bacterial Biomass Detected in Tissue From Patients With Ovarian Cancer and Serous Tubal Intraepithelial Carcinomas Using 16S rDNA Sequencing	8
Clinical Characteristics and Laboratory Diagnoses of Pediatric Patients Hospitalized During an Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae	8
Our current clinical understanding of Candida biofilms: where are we two decades on?	8
Prognostic Significance of Immunohistochemical Surrogate Molecular Sub‐Typing of Small Cell Lung Carcinoma	8
The value of umbilical cord insertion site sampling in detecting maternal and/or fetal inflammatory response	8
Growth factor expression is enhanced, and extracellular matrix proteins are depressed in healing skin wounds in septic patients compared with healthy controls	8
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Fungal positivity and other laboratory parameters in HIV‐ and non‐HIV‐related cryptococcal meningitis patients upon antifungal treatment	7
Microbiological Analysis of Lower Airway Samples: Does It Influence the Outcome in Patients With Community‐Acquired Pneumonia?	7
Viral intruders in the heart: A review of RNA viruses and their role in cardiac disorders	7
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Forssman and the staphylococcal hemolysins	7
RETRACTION: Molecular Diversity of the Planctomycetes in the Human Gut Microbiota in France and Senegal	7
Aquaporin‐1 in breast cancer	7
Evaluating the Efficacy of Capreomycin and Levofloxacin Combination Therapy in Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis Patients	7
Undifferentiated–dedifferentiated endometrial carcinoma; the reappearance of an old friend with insights into the new data	7
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Gene polymorphisms of TLR10: effects on bacterial meningitis outcomes in Angolan children	6
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Antibiotic resistances of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii in urine cultures: experience in a hospital of Southeast Spain	6
Antifungal drug resistance in Candida: a special emphasis on amphotericin B	6
STK11 mutation affects the killing effect of NK cells to promote the progression of lung adenocarcinoma	6
Dynamics of endemic human coronavirus and SARS‐CoV‐2 in a hospital of Madrid, Spain. Retrospective study from June 2020 to July 2023	6
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Staining pattern of specific and cross‐reacting Melan‐A antibodies: A comparative study on 15,840 samples from 133 human tumor types	6
Pathophysiological microenvironments in oral candidiasis	6
The use of core genome multilocus sequence typing to determine the duration of vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks	6

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Mapping bacterial biofilm on explanted orthopedic hardware: An analysis of 14 consecutive cases	6
Molecular epidemiology of community‐ and hospital‐associated Clostridioides difficile infections in Jönköping, Sweden, October 2017 – March 2018	6
Prevalence and characteristics of 11 potentially diarrhoeagenic microbes in asymptomatic individuals in Norway, 2015–2020	6
PD‐L1 and PD‐1 expression in thyroid follicular epithelial dysplasia: Hashimoto thyroiditis related atypia and potential papillary carcinoma precursor	5
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Azole resistance in Candida auris: mechanisms and combinatorial therapy	5
Inter‐observer agreement of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in primary HER2‐positive breast cancer and correlation between tissue microarray and full tumor‐sections	5
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A novel fully human recombinant antibody neutralizing α‐hemolysin of Staphylococcus aureus	5
Intestinal metaplasia is a precursor lesion for sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma: genomic investigation of a case proving this hypothesis	5
Prevalence and Co‐Detection Rates of SARS‐CoV‐2, Influenza, and Respiratory Syncytial Virus: A Retrospective Analysis	5
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Diarrhoea‐causing microorganisms are rare in adult patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy for suspected appendicitis: a prospective observational cohort study	5
How to Write a Pathology Research Paper—Basic Principles and Beyond—A Primer for Residents	5
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RE: Aetiological profile of acute encephalitis syndrome in Assam, India, during a 4‐year period from 2019 to 2022	4
An insight on the eye bacterial microbiota and its role on dry eye disease	4
A unique case of Fusobacterium nucleatum spondylodiscitis communicating with a pleural empyema through a fistula	4
Analyses of ABO blood groups with susceptibility and symptomatic variations of COVID‐19 infection, a questionnaire‐based survey	4
Emergence and fixation of SARS‐CoV‐2 minority variants in a chronically infected patient receiving therapy in Denmark	4
Editorial for PMI Journal 100‐Years Anniversary Focus Issue	4
The microbiome in the pathogenesis of lung cancer	4
Mucosal microbiotas and their role in stem cell transplantation	4
Prognostic implications of the tumor immune microenvironment and immune checkpoint pathway in primary central nervous system diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma in the North Indian population	4
Patients with tinea pedis and onychomycosis are more likely to use disinfectants when washing textiles than controls	4
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Antimicrobial resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cystic fibrosis population after introduction of a novel cephalosporin/β‐lactamase inhibitor combination	4
Differences in gene expression despite identical histomorphology in sinonasal intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma and metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma	4
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Peer‐to‐peer validation of Ki‐67 scoring in a pathology quality circle as a tool to assess interobserver variability: are we better than we thought?	4
Tertiary lymphoid structures and gastric cancer prognosis	4
Humoral immune response of Galleria mellonella after mono‐ and co‐injection with Hypericum perforatum extract and Candida albicans	4
Rhinoviral Infection of the Human Lung Vascular Endothelium May Protect From the Secondary Infection With Rhinovirus RV‐16	4
Circ_0006873 suppresses the osteogenic differentiation of human‐derived mesenchymal stem cells through mediating miR‐20a/SMURF2 axis in vitro	4
Infectious native aortic aneurysm with negative blood cultures: do not forget the pneumococcal urinary antigen test!	4
Systematic Morphological Assesment of the Ascending Aorta Dissection: Application of Cardiovascular Pathology Consensus Statement in Tertiary Care Hospital in Finland	4
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The expression and prognostic relevance of CDH3 in tongue squamous cell carcinoma	3
In Vitro Activity of Antifungals in Combination With Meropenem or Daptomycin Against Dual Candida albicans–Bacterial Biofilms	3
Nanomaterials and Candida auris: A Systematic Review of Emerging Strategies	3
No evidence of increased anti‐M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies in SSA‐positive connective tissue disease patients	3
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Detection methods targeting the positive‐ and negative‐sense RNA transcripts from plus‐stranded RNA viruses	3
Historical concepts and contemporary perspectives of dental caries—a tribute to Henrik Dam (1895–1976)	3
Screening the Tocriscreen™ bioactive compound library in search for inhibitors of Candida biofilm formation	3
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Correction to “The relevance of ERG immunoexpression intensity for prostatic adenocarcinoma in radical prostatectomy of 635 samples”	3
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Highly sensitive duplex MSI test and BAT40 germline polymorphism	3
Do mast cells contribute to the continued survival of vertebrates?	3