Nature Reviews Microbiology

Article	Citations
Commensal bacteria fight colorectal cancer	3005
The cost of resistance	2434
A. muciniphila boosts metabolic health	1547
A giant factory for virion production	1041
Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats	712
Leaving your polar bear host behind	703
Cross-kingdom defence proteins	666
A conserved role for bacterial TIR domains	631
Microbial strategist of metastasis	621
Overcoming supply issues	607
Toxin–antitoxin to the rescue against phages	567
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost	489
Motor-powered trafficking	454
Sugar-fuelled plasmid exchanges	446
Run Vibrio, run!	425
CIStematic cell death	423
A novel single-agent antibiotic	423
Argonaute fends off invaders	386
Diet underlying autism–microbiome association	380
Bee-saving symbionts	378
Sticky Candida auris	376
Viral spillback	361
The cost of biofilms	344
Capturing glycans	338
Scooping up all the drugs	332

The HIV epidemic 40 years on	322
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes	318
Adapting to host life	318
Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage	310
Blasting away a fungal pathogen	301
Jumping between hosts	298
A never-ending defence fight	296
Arming the host	289
Unique bile acid metabolism in centenarians	282
Antibiotics predispose to nosocomial infections	281
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms	271
Fungi feed bacteria for biodegradation	264
Root bacterium protects plants from drought	262
Gut commensals produce retinoids	260
Fitness cost of antifungal resistance	259
Off to a new host	258
The rising mpox crisis	247
Spreading out of the lung	246
Phages to the rescue	244
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors	234
Evaluating an RSV inhibitor	234
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly	232
Infection marks gut commensals	227
Gut–brain axis in ageing	222
Bacterial contact killing	214
A gut microbiome-restoring diet	211
Reviving colistin	210
Viruses on the move	209
A mosquito symbiont controls flaviviruses	204
A tale of two codes	193
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater	190
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response	177
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe	173
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept	170
Linking innate immune evasion to pandemic potential	168
Beating in on a stable partnership	167
Taking metagenomics under the wings	165
A toolkit for microbial community editing	162
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges	161
Schistosomes go single cell	159
Small RNAs and their mighty roles in plasmid replication	152
Unveiling plasmid diversity in nature	151
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics	150
Across the mucus	149
Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity	140
Dispersing biofilm myths	138
Host specificity of the gut microbiome	136
African microbiomes matter	135
Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient emergence of antimicrobial resistance	131
Foodborne bacterial pathogens: genome-based approaches for enduring and emerging threats in a complex and changing world	130

Author Correction: Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19	130
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa	126
A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner	121
Towards SARS-CoV-2 serotypes?	121
Beneficial applications of biofilms	119
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites	116
Ecology, global diversity and evolutionary mechanisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex	111
Respiratory syncytial virus infection and novel interventions	110
Antibiotic-induced collateral damage to the microbiota and associated infections	110
A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection	110
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease	109
Bacteriocin diversity, function, discovery and application as antimicrobials	108
Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities	107
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance	106
Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases	105
Lassa fever — the road ahead	104
The microbiome-shaping roles of bacteriocins	101
Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management	97
ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics	97
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria	96
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis	93
Microbial diversity in extreme environments	93
The interplay between diet and the gut microbiome: implications for health and disease	93
Fungal biofilms in human health and disease	93
Infectious disease in an era of global change	91
Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems	90
The soil plastisphere	87
No viral rebound	80
The intruders that stole the master key	80
Mutualistic interplay between bacteriophages and bacteria in the human gut	79
Towards improved biofilm models	78
Type VII secretion systems: structure, functions and transport models	77
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?	75
Balancing the bloom	74
Bundling microtubules	74
Circulating leprosy in the wild	72
Indirect intervention	71
Busting Cryptococcus with brilacidin	70
Ciliate symbionts create the flow	69
Insights into the mechanism of superantigen	67
Implants to defeat bacterial infection	67
Contact-dependent killing by Myxococcus	66
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation	64
Recording the gut transit	63
Finding protection in the community	63
How antibiotics predispose to candidiasis	60
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?	60
Rhythmic resistance	58
A deadly escape	56
A mature microbiome for immune health	55
Staphylococcus aureus gets itchy	51
Pili go with the flow	50
Defeating dengue with Wolbachia	49
The gut keeps Candida in check	49
Change of programme	48
Cyanobacterial eagle killer	47
Smoking, dysbiosis and weight gain	47
Cross-domain symbiosis	43
Soil microbiota takes the heat	43
Combatting the HIV reservoir	43
Fluid flow stress	43
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour	42
Feasting on hydrocarbons via dendritic biofilms	41
Sabotage of CRISPR–Cas	40
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Preventing programmed destruction	37
Equine flu after the jump	36
EBV linked to multiple sclerosis	36
Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race	36
Uneven division	36
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures	35
Cyclic pyrimidines defend against phages	34
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2	33
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread	31
Microbiome-colonizing RNAs	30
Mobilizing resistance genes in the human gut	28
Motivation for exercise from the gut	27
A killer biofilm	26
SURFing SARS-CoV-2 inhibition	26
Taking the jump to humans	25

Responding to extreme climates

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