OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cell Host & Microbe is 81. 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
Sowing the seeds of infection	492
Combatting superbugs using the evolutionary record of microbial warfare	461
Microbial genome mining expedition unearths trove of antiviral defenses	288
Breathe and bloom: Gut hypoxia limits C. albicans growth	268
Selenium nanoboosting of plant-beneficial microbiome	267
Microbial byproducts determine reproductive fitness of free-living and parasitic nematodes	242
Candidalysin: An unlikely aide for fungal gut commensalism	237
Cohabitation facilitates microbiome shifts that promote isoflavone transformation to ameliorate liver injury	221
Proteobacteria impair anti-tumor immunity in the omentum by consuming arginine	195
The bacterial effector GarD shields Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions from RNF213-mediated ubiquitylation and destruction	193
Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans	191
Functional map of SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease reveals tolerant and immutable sites	182
A secondary metabolite drives intraspecies antagonism in a gut symbiont that is inhibited by cell-wall acetylation	176
Comprehensive analyses of a large human gut Bacteroidales culture collection reveal species- and strain-level diversity and evolution	173
Secretory IgA: Linking microbes, maternal health, and infant health through human milk	168
Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities	166
MFSD6 is an entry receptor for respiratory enterovirus D68	162
Engineered bacteria recycle tumor metabolic waste to boost immunotherapy	161
Diverse events have transferred genes for edible seaweed digestion from marine to human gut bacteria	159
Cad1 turns ATP into phage poison	152
Help from commensals: β-hex to regulate gut immunity	151
Two-for-one: Dual host-microbe functions of S. epidermidis Sph	149
Immunity to fungi and vaccine considerations	145
Conspecific versus heterospecific transmission shapes host specialization of the phyllosphere microbiome	144
From top to bottom: Staphylococci in atopic dermatitis	142

A broadly distributed predicted helicase/nuclease confers phage resistance via abortive infection	139
There and back again: Discovering antiviral and antiphage defenses using deep homology	137
Tactical terminase: How a Salmonella prophage navigates oxidative stress	136
Beta-carbolines suppress vaginal inflammation	136
Antibiotic treatment ignites a fire that lasts	128
Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 variant	126
Subtle, persistent shaping of the gut microbiome by host genes: A critical determinant of host biology	124
Cross-regulation of antibody responses against the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and commensal microbiota via molecular mimicry	123
Virulence factors perforate the pathogen-containing vacuole to signal efferocytosis	122
Select symbionts drive high IgA levels in the mouse intestine	122
Gut microbial β-glucuronidases influence endobiotic homeostasis and are modulated by diverse therapeutics	121
BCAA-producing Clostridium symbiosum promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through the modulation of host cholesterol metabolism	121
Impact of a 7-day homogeneous diet on interpersonal variation in human gut microbiomes and metabolomes	121
Overcoming drug resistance, the natural way	121
A mucin-regulated adhesin determines the spatial organization and inflammatory character of a bacterial symbiont in the vertebrate gut	120
Location matters in RSV protection	119
“AHR-ming” host defense against cryptosporidiosis	118
The gut microbiome: Bridging medications and clinical outcomes post stem cell transplantation	118
A lung pathobiont story: Thinking outside the Koch’s postulate box	113
SARS-CoV-2 human T cell epitopes: Adaptive immune response against COVID-19	111
Gut IgA: Never fear, the super inducers are here	111
Systematic reconstruction of an effector-gene network reveals determinants of Salmonella cellular and tissue tropism	110
Enhanced neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 and XBB sub-lineages by a tetravalent COVID-19 vaccine booster	109
Modulating HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein conformation to decrease the HIV-1 reservoir	109
Decline in nitrosative stress drives antibiotic persister regrowth during infection	108
Predator-prey interplay: When chemical conversation turns deadly	106
Antibiotics fire up inflammation to cool vaccine responsiveness	105
Exclusive enteral nutrition initiates individual protective microbiome changes to induce remission in pediatric Crohn’s disease	104
MX2 forms nucleoporin-comprising cytoplasmic biomolecular condensates that lure viral capsids	100
RSV and rhinovirus increase pneumococcal carriage acquisition and density, whereas nasal inflammation is associated with bacterial shedding	100
A single-cell liver atlas of Plasmodium vivax infection	100
Multiple introductions and recombination events underlie the emergence of a hyper-transmissible Cryptosporidium hominis subtype in the USA	99
Dietary environmental factors shape the immune defense against Cryptosporidium infection	97
A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation	97
Microbiota-dependent proteolysis of gluten subverts diet-mediated protection against type 1 diabetes	95
Uncoupling of IL-6 signaling and LC3-associated phagocytosis drives immunoparalysis during sepsis	95
On-person adaptive evolution of Staphylococcus aureus during treatment for atopic dermatitis	93
Intestinal microbiota programming of alveolar macrophages influences severity of respiratory viral infection	92
Global translational induction during NLR-mediated immunity in plants is dynamically regulated by CDC123, an ATP-sensitive protein	91
One population, multiple lifestyles: Commensalism and pathogenesis in the human mycobiome	89
Precision modulation of dysbiotic adult microbiomes with a human-milk-derived synbiotic reshapes gut microbial composition and metabolites	89
Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-lineages BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2	89
Microbiota alert: Proteobacteria consume arginine to dampen omental antitumor immunity	89
Cryptosporidium rhoptry effector protein ROP1 injected during invasion targets the host cytoskeletal modulator LMO7	88
Goodbye PAM: Phage λ’s Red recombination system cripples PAMs and helps dodge CRISPR attacks	87
Shigella ubiquitin ligase IpaH7.8 targets gasdermin D for degradation to prevent pyroptosis and enable infection	87
When NOD ligands become antidotes	85
A counterintuitive antibody cocktail disrupts coxsackievirus	85
Bacteria exploit viral dormancy to establish CRISPR-Cas immunity	84
AI in microbiome research: Where have we been, where are we going?	82

Immune chromatin reader SP140 regulates microbiota and risk for inflammatory bowel disease	82
The gut microbiome molecular complex in human health and disease	82
Brain development in premature infants: A bug in the programming system?	82
Memory profiles distinguish cross-reactive and virus-specific T cell immunity to mpox	81
Enteric virome negatively affects seroconversion following oral rotavirus vaccination in a longitudinally sampled cohort of Ghanaian infants	81
Multi-arming ourselves against drug-resistant bacteria	81