OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Neurovirology is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Successful treatment of HIV-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) with mirtazapine, mefloquine, and IVIG combination therapy: a case report	62
Possible role of CNS microRNAs in Human Mpox virus encephalitis—a mini-review	33
Zika virus infection of retinal cells and the developing mouse eye induces host responses that contrasts to the brain and dengue virus infection	24
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in sarcoidosis successfully treated with pembrolizumab	22
Serum mir-142-3p release in children with viral encephalitis and its relationship with nerve injury and inflammatory response	21
Correction: The presence of human polyomavirus JC (JCPyV) in pediatric brain tumors: a plausible trigger in Wnt/β-catenin pathway	21
Sex-specific mitochondrial DNA changes in neuron-derived extracellular vesicles of African American adults: impact of HIV infection and smoking	19
HIV associated motor neuron disease (MND): A case series with systematic review of literature	19
Cognitive function and impact on driving after SARS-COV-2 infection in a man with long-standing HIV infection: a case report	19
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a young adult with DOCK8 deficiency: a case of JC virus reactivation in primary immunodeficiency	19
Serum of COVID-19 patients changes neuroinflammation and mitochondrial homeostasis markers in hippocampus of aged rats	17
Varicella-zoster virus meningitis coincident with bacteremia caused by liver abscess: a case report	14
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, advanced ductal breast carcinoma, systemic sclerosis, and checkpoint inhibitors: a therapeutic dilemma	14
Serum but not cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers are associated with domain-specific cognitive performance in PWH	13
Time since HIV diagnosis is linked to amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in older adults with HIV	13
A case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with hypogammaglobulinemia and a TCF3 mutation	13
MicroRNA biomarkers for JC virus reactivation and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in natalizumab-treated multiple sclerosis patients: a systematic review	12
Long-term survival from progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in living-donor liver transplant recipient with preformed donor-specific antibody	11
Effect of coinfections on neurocognitive functioning among people with clade C HIV infection in Zambia	10
Seropositivity and reactivations of HSV-1, but not of HSV-2 nor VZV, associate with altered blood–brain barrier, beta amyloid, and tau proteins in people living with HIV	10
Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study	10
Genetic polymorphisms in innate immunity genes influence predisposition to tick-borne encephalitis	10
HIV-1 Tat drives the Fabp4/NF-κB feedback loop in microglia to mediate inflammatory response and neuronal apoptosis	9
Incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the pediatric population at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS) and characterization of confirmed cases	9
HIV-associated multiple intracranial aneurysms and stroke in an adult patient: successful treatment with a combination of glucocorticoid and antiviral agents	8

Increased expression of PD-1 in CD8 + CD3 + T cells correlates with EBV viral load in MS patients	8
Fentanyl dysregulates neuroinflammation and disrupts blood-brain barrier integrity in HIV-1 Tat transgenic mice	8
Low incidence of advanced neurological burden but high incidence of age-related conditions that are dementia risk factors in aging people living with HIV: a data-linkage 10-year follow-up study	8
Herpesviruses, polyomaviruses, parvoviruses, papillomaviruses, and anelloviruses in vestibular schwannoma	8
Refining the risk of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy in people living with HTLV-1: identification of a HAM-like phenotype in a proportion of asymptomatic carriers	8
Upregulation of microRNAs correlates with downregulation of HERV-K expression in Parkinson’s disease	8
In vitro characterization of the antiviral activity of Bat Interferon-Induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 5 (bat IFIT5) against bat-associated rabies virus	8
Journal of neurovirology	8
Simian varicella virus infection and reactivation in rhesus macaques trigger cytokine and Aβ40/42 alterations in serum and cerebrospinal fluid	8
Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers of Symptomatic Neurosyphilis in People With HIV Compared with Uninfected Individuals	8
Differential effects of fentanyl compared to morphine on neuroinflammatory signaling in the brain in EcoHIV-infected mice	7
Evolving etiologies, comorbidities, survival, and costs of care in adult encephalitis	7
Correction to: Antiretroviral drugs induce oxidative stress and neuronal damage in the central nervous system	7
Influence of plasma exosomes from women living with HIV Stratified by HAND on monocyte subpopulations from healthy women without HIV	7
Designing a cellular MicroRNA-based approach to silence bat-borne Nipah virus genes	7
Comment on “Limited HIV-associated neuropathologies and lack of immune activation in sub-saharan African individuals with late-stage subtype C HIV-1 infection”	6
Characterizing Epstein-Barr virus infection of the central nervous system in Zambian adults living with HIV	6
Cognitive deficits in HTLV-1 patients	6
A rare kind of Guillain-Barre syndrome triggered by acute hepatitis A infection in a pediatric patient: a case report and review of literature	6
Generating fair, reliable, and accurate neuropsychological test norms for people with HIV in a low- or middle-income country	6
Expression in skin biopsies supports genetic evidence linking CAMKK2, P2X7R and P2X4R with HIV-associated sensory neuropathy	6
Retraction Note: The anticancer drug sunitinib promotes autophagy and protects from neurotoxicity in an HIV-1 Tat model of neurodegeneration	6
Catastrophic tumefactive acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in patient with dengue virus: a case report	6
Detection of human neurotropic JCPyV DNA sequence in pediatric anaplastic xanthoastrocytoma	5
Implications of vascular depression for successful cognitive aging in HIV Disease	5
Rapid-progressing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in two patients newly diagnosed with HIV: case series and review of literature	5
Unmasking HAM/TSP: understanding HTLV-1-driven neurological disease	5
Metformin promotes PEN2 expression to attenuate microglia-mediated neurotoxicity induced by HIV-1 Tat	5
Innate immune memory in chronic HIV and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND): potential mechanisms and clinical implications	5
Evaluation of the effects of the Zika Virus-Immunoglobulin G+ complex on murine microglial cells	5
Cytomegalovirus infection induces Alzheimer’s disease-associated alterations in tau	5
Maintaining the battle against vaccine-preventable neurological diseases in the United States	5
Cortico-striatal networking deficits associated with advanced HIV disease and cocaine use	5
Plasma extracellular vesicles and cell-free mitochondrial DNA are associated with cognitive dysfunction in treated older adults with HIV	4
Differential expression of cellular prion protein (PrPC) in mouse hepatitis virus induced neuroinflammation	4
Beyond accuracy: facial emotion perception bias in people with HIV in Uganda	4
Encephalomyelitis in a patient with monkeypox: an unusual complication	4
Monkeypox virus replication underlying circadian rhythm networks	4
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in aquaporin-4 associate with cognitive impairment status in people with HIV	4
Cooperative interactions between neurotrophin receptors and CXCR4 regulate macrophage phenotype and susceptibility to activation by HIV	4
Mapping ACE2 and TMPRSS2 co-expression in human brain tissue: implications for SARS-CoV-2 neurological manifestations	4
Myelin regulatory factor is a target of individual and interactive effects of HIV-1 Tat and morphine in the striatum and pre-frontal cortex	4
The incidence of symptomatic CSF viral escape in patients on antiretroviral therapy in western India: a retrospective cohort study	4
HSV-1 latency-associated transcript miR-H3 and miR-H4 target STXBP1 and GABBR2 genes	4
Systematic post-mortem analysis of brain tissue from an HIV-1 subtype C viremic decedent revealed a paucity of infection and pathology	4
Comparison of clinical, radiological and outcome parameters in patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) with and without HIV infection: a cohort study	4
Clinical features of varicella-zoster virus meningitis diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction without abnormal routine cerebrospinal fluid analysis	4
A pilot study of cognition and creativity among persons with HIV disease referred for neuropsychological evaluation	4
Stroke risk after varicella-zoster virus infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Response to “a fatal case of Guillain-Barré syndrome after infection with COVID-19”	4

T-lymphocyte activation markers in patients with HIV-1-associated neurocognitive disorder	4
A viral attack on brain tumors: the potential of oncolytic virus therapy	4
Neuropsychiatric disorders in the course to SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, including biological pathomechanisms, psychosocial factors and long COVID-19 associated with “brain fog”	3
Proteomic and machine learning signatures of rabies virus infection reveal stage-specific biomarkers	3
Differences in neuroinflammation in people who started antiretroviral treatment during primary versus chronic HIV infection: an 18kDa Translocator protein (TSPO) positron emission tomography (PET) stu	3
Substance use moderates relationships between apolipoprotein E genotype, hepatitis C, cognition, and depression in Miami Adult Studies on HIV (MASH) participants	3
The evaluation expression of non-coding RNAs in response to HSV-G47∆ oncolytic virus infection in glioblastoma multiforme cancer stem cells	3
Amebic infections of the central nervous system	3
Neuroimaging and immunological features of neurocognitive function related to substance use in people with HIV	3
Correction: Varicella zoster virus meningoencephalitis and vasculopathy in an immunocompromised patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a diagnostic challenge	3
Central nervous system reactivation of herpesviridae family in patients with COVID-19	3
Is there a connection between neurocognitive profile in treatment naïve non-cirrhotic HCV patients and level of systemic inflammation?	3
Reactivation of varicella zoster virus following trigeminal schwannoma resection	3
Role of inflammatory cytokine burst in neuro-invasion of Japanese Encephalitis virus infection: an immunotherapeutic approaches	3
High glucose potentiates Zika virus induced-astroglial dysfunctions	3
Meta-analysis of the serum/plasma proteome identifies significant associations between COVID-19 with Alzheimer’s/Parkinson’s diseases	3
The dual role of ACE2 in viral infections and neurodegeneration: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities	3
Atypical disseminated herpes zoster infections in patients with demyelinating disease treated with dimethyl fumarate	3
A report of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy during adjuvant abemaciclib for breast cancer	3
Difference in the neurocognitive functions of WLWH and MLWH in an Italian cohort of people living with HIV	3
Correction to: Plasma extracellular vesicles and cell-free mitochondrial DNA are associated with cognitive dysfunction in treated older adults with HIV	3
CSF CXCL13 as a longitudinal marker for neurocognition in HIV-1-associated dementia after start of treatment in cART-naïve patients	3
The synthetic opioid fentanyl increases HIV replication and chemokine co-receptor expression in vitro	3
Sex differences in cognitive function among people with HIV-1 clade C infection in Northern India	3
The synergistic effect of insomnia and depression on risk of herpes zoster	3
Acute cerebellitis following COVID-19 infection associated with autoantibodies to glutamate receptors: a case report	3
A cross-cohort comparison of the prevalence and clinical significance of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in people with versus without HIV	2
Bell’s palsy as the initial manifestation of Listeria monocytogenes rhombencephalitis with brainstem abscesses in an immunocompetent adult: a case report	2
The presence of human polyomavirus JC (JCPyV) in pediatric brain tumors: a plausible trigger in Wnt/β-catenin pathway	2
iPSC-derived three-dimensional brain organoid models and neurotropic viral infections	2
Norovirus-associated neurological manifestations: summarizing the evidence	2
Induced expression of rabies glycoprotein in the dorsal hippocampus enhances hippocampal dependent memory in a rat model of Alzheimer’s disease	2
Immune-mediated cerebellitis following SARS-CoV-2 infection—a case report and review of the literature	2
Momordica charantia phytoconstituents can inhibit human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) infectivity in vitro and in vivo	2
Detection of disease-associated microglia among various microglia phenotypes induced by West Nile virus infection in mice	2
Combination antiretroviral therapy prevents SIV-induced aging in the hippocampus and neurodegeneration throughout the brain	2
A frantic confusion: beyond rabies and anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate encephalitis	2
SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 display limited neuronal infection and lack the ability to transmit within synaptically connected axons in stem cell–derived human neurons	2
Assessing cognitive impairment in HIV-infected: a comparative study of international HIV Dementia Scale, HIV Dementia Scale Italian version and Montreal cognitive assessment in clinical practice	2
Rapid decline of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of axonal injury and neuroinflammation after initiation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV	2
Cognitive performance in a South African cohort of people with HIV and comorbid major depressive disorder	2
Correction: Performance of the national institute of infectious diseases disability scale in HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis	2
Disruption of blood–brain barrier: effects of HIV Tat on brain microvascular endothelial cells and tight junction proteins	2
Persistent accelerated epigenetic ageing in a longitudinal cohort of vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents	2
Cognitive dysfunction following COVID-19 infection	2
Chronic granulomatosis with persistent HSV intrathecal synthesis over three years: a rare complication of HSV encephalitis in adult	2
Regulation of voltage-gated sodium channels by TNF-α during herpes simplex virus latency establishment	2
Neuropsychological profile of patients with infectious disease: characterization and comparison of patients with HIV, HTLV, and HCV	2
Cerebrospinal fluid CD14++CD16+ monocytes in HIV-1 subtype C compared with subtype B	2
Additive cortical gray matter deficits in people living with HIV who use cocaine	2
Multi-functional auto-fluorescent nanogels for theranostics	2
Regulation of eco-tropic human immunodeficiency virus type-1-infection by sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartic domain containing protein-1 in a microglial cell line: a novel in vitro model for s	2
Blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarker changes in patients with HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment treated with lithium: analysis from a randomised placebo-controlled trial	2
HIV viremia contributes to neurocognitive impairments in persons who use cocaine	2
Role of extracellular vesicles derived from HIV-infected T cells and microglial cells in neuroinflammation and neuropathogenesis using a blood–brain barrier and cerebral organoid co-culture model	2
RNA-Seq time-course analysis of neural precursor cell transcriptome in response to herpes simplex Virus-1 infection	2
Altered white matter microstructure and neurocognitive function of HIV-infected patients with low nadir CD4	2
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a retrospective study of the last 12 years in a tertiary-care hospital	2
Immune response to COVID-19 vaccines among people living with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 infection: a retrospective cohort study from Iran	2