OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Infectious Diseases is 47. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Action for better brain health among people living with HIV: protocol for a randomized controlled trial	602
Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in a health care worker population during the early pandemic	208
State transitions across the Strep A disease spectrum: scoping review and evidence gaps	135
Patterns of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in different anatomical sites among Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) users in Brazil	134
Corticosteroid treatment in severe patients with SARS-CoV-2 and chronic HBV co-infection: a retrospective multicenter study	118
Prognostic significance of chronic kidney disease and impaired renal function in Japanese patients with COVID-19	108
Skin infection by Mycobacterium farcinogenes–senegalense group in an immunocompetent patient: a case report	107
Prevalence of blaOXA-48 and other carbapenemase encoding genes among carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates in Egypt	94
Crowdsourcing to develop open-access learning resources on antimicrobial resistance	90
Prior tuberculosis, radiographic lung abnormalities and prevalent diabetes in rural South Africa	87
YELLOW RoUTIne prospective cohort study protocol: insight in the dynamics of bacteria in the elderly bladder	84
Exploring antibiotic-induced persister formation and bacterial persistence genes in clinical isolates from Burkina Faso	83
Safety of a Novel ESAT6-CFP10 skin test compared with tuberculin skin test in a double-blind, randomized, controlled study	81
Clinical characteristics, drug resistance and death risk factors of Burkholderia cepacia infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients	80
Characterizing patients with rare mucormycosis infections using real-world data	79
Prediction of incidence of neurological disorders in HIV-infected persons in Taiwan: a nested case–control study	78
Did you hear about HIV self-testing? HIV self-testing awareness after community-based HIVST distribution in rural Zimbabwe	76
A cluster randomized trial of interferon ß-1a for the reduction of transmission of SARS-Cov-2: protocol for the Containing Coronavirus Disease 19 trial (ConCorD-19)	74
Tuberculosis burden caused by migrant population in Eastern China: evidence from notification records in Zhejiang Province during 2013–2017	74
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of fatal patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study in Wuhan, China	71
Neonatal oral myiasis caused by the larvae of Sarcophaga ruficornis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): a case report	69
Signature of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in nails and hair	67
Empirical cefepime+vancomycin versus ceftazidime+vancomycin versus meropenem+vancomycin in the treatment of healthcare-associated meningitis: results of the multicenter Ephesus study	65
Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study	64
Health care consequences of hospitalization with Clostrioides difficile infection: a propensity score matching study	64

SARS-CoV-2 testing, infection and places of contamination in France, a national cross-sectional study, December 2021	61
Association of vancomycin trough concentration on the treatment outcome of patients with bacteremia caused by Enterococcus species	60
In silico homology modeling of dengue virus non-structural 4B (NS4B) protein and its molecular docking studies using triterpenoids	59
Development and clinical validation of a one-step pentaplex real-time reverse transcription PCR assay for detection of hepatitis virus B, C, E, Treponema pallidum, and a human housekeeping gene	58
Discriminant models for the prediction of postponed viral shedding time and disease progression in COVID-19	55
Impact of P2Y12 inhibitors on clinical outcomes in sepsis-3 patients receiving aspirin: a propensity score matched analysis	55
Intestinal parasitic infections and their potential risk factors among prison inmates in Valencia, Spain	55
The spatio-temporal distribution of acute encephalitis syndrome and its association with climate and landcover in Vietnam	53
Infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus sinensis diagnosed with next-generation sequencing: a case report and literature review	53
Comparative performance of contact plate metod and swab method for surface microbial contamination on medical fabrics	52
Tropheryma whipplei in the stool samples of children with acute diarrhea: a study from Tehran, Iran	52
Impact of a hospital-wide computerised approach to optimise the quality of antimicrobial prescriptions in patients with severe obesity: a quasi-experimental study	52
Evaluation of the multiplex PCR combined with capillary electrophoresis technique for detecting pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in bone infections	51
Correction to: Systematic review of invasive meningococcal disease epidemiology in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region	51
Application and evaluation of topical amphotericin B for the treatment of respiratory fungal infections	51
Comparing artificial neural network training algorithms to predict length of stay in hospitalized patients with COVID-19	50
Correction: Some virulence genes are associated with antibiotic susceptibility in Enterobacter cloacae complex	49
Correction to: Transmission dynamics and control of two epidemic waves of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea	48
Correction: Isolation of virulent phages against multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii recovered from inanimate objects of Jimma Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia	48
Correction to: Information about the natural history of acute infections commonly seen in primary care: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines	48
Real-world effectiveness and safety of oral Azvudine versus Paxlovid for COVID-19 in patients with kidney disease: a multicenter, retrospective, cohort study	47
Chronic disseminated candidiasis in a patient with acute leukemia - an illustrative case and brief review for clinicians	47
Eikenella corrodens and Parvimonas micra purulent pericarditis following oral fish bone impaction: a case report	47
Evaluation of the clinical and radiological features of patients with Malignant otitis externa (MOE)	47
Association between contextual factors and vaccine coverage against human papilomavirus in adolescents in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil: global spatial regressions	47