Virulence

Article	Citations
Pathogenicity and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus	483
COVID-19 evolution during the pandemic – Implications of new SARS-CoV-2 variants on disease control and public health policies	132
Pathogenesis and virulence of Candida albicans	116
Pathogenesis and virulence of herpes simplex virus	103
Pathogenicity and virulence of Clostridium perfringens	86
Autophagy and SARS-CoV-2 infection: A possible smart targeting of the autophagy pathway	73
Immune dysregulation and system pathology in COVID-19	71
Pathogenicity and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes: A trip from environmental to medical microbiology	69
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae is emerging as an increasingly prevalent K. pneumoniae pathotype responsible for nosocomial and healthcare-associated infections in Beijing, China	65
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) exposure in pet cats and dogs in Minnesota, USA	63
Pathogenicity and Virulence ofLegionella: Intracellular replication and host response	59
Trehalose and bacterial virulence	58
Pathogenicity and virulence of Japanese encephalitis virus: Neuroinflammation and neuronal cell damage	51
Characteristics of asymptomatic COVID-19 infection and progression: A multicenter, retrospective study	50
Pathogenicity and virulence of Marburg virus	49
Maternal-neonatal listeriosis	48
Enterovirus 71 induces neural cell apoptosis and autophagy through promoting ACOX1 downregulation and ROS generation	47
Development of a TaqMan-probe-based multiplex real-time PCR for the simultaneous detection of emerging and reemerging swine coronaviruses	46
Pathogenicity and virulence of the liver flukesFasciola hepaticaandFasciolaGiganticathat cause the zoonosis Fasciolosis	43
Transcriptomic analyses reveal comprehensive responses of insect hemocytes to mycopathogen Beauveria bassiana, and fungal virulence-related cell wall protein assists pathogen to evade host cellular de	39
The pathogenicity and virulence of Toxoplasma gondii	37
Putative determinants of virulence in Melissococcus plutonius, the bacterial agent causing European foulbrood in honey bees	36
Therapeutic implications of C. albicans-S. aureus mixed biofilm in a murine subcutaneous catheter model of polymicrobial infection	35
An Organ System-Based Synopsis ofPseudomonas aeruginosaVirulence	35
Genetic diversity and evolution of the virulence plasmids encoding aerobactin and salmochelin in Klebsiella pneumoniae	34

Pathogenesis and virulence of flavivirus infections	34
Galleria mellonella as a screening tool to study virulence factors of Aspergillus fumigatus	33
Pathogenicity & virulence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae	32
Functional analysis of seven regulators of G protein signaling (RGSs) in the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora	32
Glycosylation of viral proteins: Implication in virus–host interaction and virulence	31
Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis	31
PE_PGRS proteins ofMycobacterium tuberculosis: A specialized molecular task force at the forefront of host–pathogen interaction	31
Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) for biofilm treatments. Possible synergy between aPDT and pulsed electric fields	31
Understanding the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) exposure in companion, captive, wild, and farmed animals	31
Pathogenicity and virulence ofStreptococcus pneumoniae: Cutting to the chase on proteases	29
Infection strategies of mycoplasmas: Unraveling the panoply of virulence factors	28
Pathogenicity and virulence of Clostridioides difficile	28
Pathogenicity and virulence of Hepatitis B virus	27
The pathogenesis and virulence of enterovirus-D68 infection	27
Pathogenicity and virulence regulation of Vibrio cholerae at the interface of host-gut microbiome interactions	27
Pathogenicity and virulence of Bordetella pertussis and its adaptation to its strictly human host	26
Paeoniflorin reduce luxS/AI-2 system-controlled biofilm formation and virulence in Streptococcus suis	26
YjbH regulates virulence genes expression and oxidative stress resistance in Staphylococcus aureus	26
AP-1 signaling pathway promotes pro-IL-1β transcription to facilitate NLRP3 inflammasome activation upon influenza A virus infection	26
The hypermucoviscosity of hypervirulent K. pneumoniae confers the ability to evade neutrophil-mediated phagocytosis	26
A serious skin virus epidemic sweeping through the Indian subcontinent is a threat to the livelihood of farmers	26
Virulence ofCandida aurisfrom different clinical origins inCaenorhabditis elegansandGalleria mellonellahost models	26
Identification of FDA-approved antivirulence drugs targeting thePseudomonas aeruginosaquorum sensing effector protein PqsE	26
Persistent low-Level viremia in persons living with HIV undertreatment: An unresolved status	25
Synergy of alanine and gentamicin to reduce nitric oxide for elevating killing efficacy to antibiotic-resistant Vibrio alginolyticus	25
Domain in Fiber-2 interacted with KPNA3/4 significantly affects the replication and pathogenicity of the highly pathogenic FAdV-4	25
Contribution of hypoxia inducible factor-1 during viral infections	25
Host Defence RNases as Antiviral Agents against Enveloped Single Stranded RNA Viruses	25
A clubroot pathogen effector targets cruciferous cysteine proteases to suppress plant immunity	25
From environmental adaptation to host survival: Attributes that mediate pathogenicity of Candida auris	24
Convergence of carbapenem resistance and hypervirulence in a highly-transmissible ST11 clone of K. pneumoniae: An epidemiological, genomic and functional study	24
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae evades complement activation by binding to factor H via elongation factor thermo unstable (EF-Tu)	23
Zika virus NS2A inhibits interferon signaling by degradation of STAT1 and STAT2	23
Early oseltamivir reduces risk for influenza-associated aspergillosis in a double-hit murine model	22
Transcriptional host–pathogen responses of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and three species of bats with white-nose syndrome	22
Attenuation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection by INP0341, a salicylidene acylhydrazide, in a murine model of keratitis	22
Pathogenicity and Virulence of Ebolaviruses with Species- and Variant-specificity	22
Maltose promotes crucian carp survival against Aeromonas sobrial infection at high temperature	22
The African swine fever virus protease pS273R inhibits DNA sensing cGAS-STING pathway by targeting IKKε	22
Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus haemolyticus on primary human skin fibroblast cells	21
Pathogenicity and virulence of West Nile virus revisited eight decades after its first isolation	21
Aprepitant, an antiemetic agent, interferes with metal ion homeostasis ofCandida aurisand displays potent synergistic interactions with azole drugs	21
Hypervirulent and hypermucoviscous extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella variicola in Chile	21
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)-mediated killing of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-hvKP) are impaired in patients with diabetes mellitus	21
MoSec61β, the beta subunit of Sec61, is involved in fungal development and pathogenicity, plant immunity, and ER-phagy in Magnaporthe oryzae	21
Insights into idarubicin antimicrobial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	21
Review of human pegivirus: Prevalence, transmission, pathogenesis, and clinical implication	20
Pathogenicity and virulence of hepatitis A virus	20
Elite controllers: A heterogeneous group of HIV-infected patients	19
Titan cell formation is unique to Cryptococcus species complex	19

The battle for autophagy between host and influenza A virus	19
Pathogenicity and virulence of Entamoeba histolytica , the agent of amoebiasis	19
Pathogenicity and virulence mechanisms of Lassa virus and its animal modeling, diagnostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic developments	19
Clinical and epidemiological characterization of severe Plasmodium vivax malaria in Gujarat, India	19
“Core” RxLR effectors in phytopathogenic oomycetes: A promising way to breeding for durable resistance in plants?	18
Evaluation of hepatitis E antigen kinetics and its diagnostic utility for prediction of the outcomes of hepatitis E virus genotype 1 infection	18
Intracellular persistence of Staphylococcus aureus in endothelial cells is promoted by the absence of phenol-soluble modulins	18
The journey of SARS-CoV-2 in human hosts: a review of immune responses, immunosuppression, and their consequences	18
MSS2 maintains mitochondrial function and is required for chitosan resistance, invasive growth, biofilm formation and virulence in Candida albicans	18
Classical swine fever virus employs the PERK- and IRE1-dependent autophagy for viral replication in cultured cells.	18
Roborovski hamster (Phodopus roborovskii) strain SH101 as a systemic infection model of SARS-CoV-2	18
Genetic diversification of persistent Mycobacterium abscessus within cystic fibrosis patients	18
Orientin mediates protection against MRSA-induced pneumonia by inhibiting Sortase A	18
TMT-based quantitative proteomics analysis reveals the attenuated replication mechanism of Newcastle disease virus caused by nuclear localization signal mutation in viral matrix protein	18
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from infected skin lesions present several virulence genes and are associated with the CC30 in Brazilian children with atopic dermatitis	18
Shewanellainfection in humans: Epidemiology, clinical features and pathogenicity	17
CRISPR-cas system in the acquisition of virulence genes in dental-root canal and hospital-acquired isolates of Enterococcus faecalis	17
Quasispecies of SARS-CoV-2 revealed by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) analysis	17
Mitigating the threat of emerging infectious diseases; a coevolutionary perspective	17
Evaluation of the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of a new live-attenuated lumpy skin disease vaccine in India	17
Pathogenicity and virulence of Aspergillus fumigatus	17
Mechanisms underlying of antiretroviral drugs in different cellular reservoirs with a focus on macrophages	17
Phenol-soluble modulins α are major virulence factors of Staphylococcus aureus secretome promoting inflammatory response in human epidermis	17
Virulence role of the outer membrane protein CarO in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii	17
The spreading of parasites by human migratory activities	16
The pathogenicity and virulence of Leishmania - interplay of virulence factors with host defenses	16
Establishing an invertebrate Galleria mellonella greater wax moth larval model of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection	16
UvKmt6-mediated H3K27 trimethylation is required for development, pathogenicity, and stress response in Ustilaginoidea virens	16
The lipoprotein NlpD in Cronobacter sakazakii responds to acid stress and regulates macrophage resistance and virulence by maintaining membrane integrity	16
Bordetella bronchiseptica promotes adherence, colonization, and cytotoxicity of Streptococcus suis in a porcine precision-cut lung slice model	16
Genomic and phenotypic analyses of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii NCCP 16007 isolated from a patient with a urinary tract infection	16
Versatile lifestyles of Edwardsiella: Free-living, pathogen, and core bacterium of the aquatic resistome	16
Nucleolar protein NPM1 is essential for circovirus replication by binding to viral capsid	16
Rab18 binds to classical swine fever virus NS5A and mediates viral replication and assembly in swine umbilical vein endothelial cells	15
The PirB toxin protein from Vibrio parahaemolyticus induces apoptosis in hemocytes of Penaeus vannamei	15
Whole genome analysis unveils genetic diversity and potential virulence determinants in Vibrio parahaemolyticus associated with disease outbreak among cultured Litopenaeus vannamei (Paci	15
The leptospiral LipL21 and LipL41 proteins exhibit a broad spectrum of interactions with host cell components	15
Talaromyces marneffei promotes M2-like polarization of human macrophages by downregulating SOCS3 expression and activating the TLR9 pathway	15
Adaptation of the emerging pathogenic yeast Candida auris to high caspofungin concentrations correlates with cell wall changes	15
Identification of Streptococcus suis putative zoonotic virulence factors: A systematic review and genomic meta-analysis	15
A systematic review of the epidemiology of Hepatitis E virus infection in South – Eastern Asia	15
Importance of twitching and surface-associated motility in the virulence of Acinetobacter baumannii	15
A virulent Bacillus cereus strain from deep-sea cold seep induces pyroptosis in a manner that involves NLRP3 inflammasome, JNK pathway, and lysosomal rupture	15
SarA plays a predominant role in controlling the production of extracellular proteases in the diverse clinical isolates ofStaphylococcus aureusLAC and UAMS-1	15
Differential adaptability between reference strains and clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa into the lung epithelium intracellular lifestyle	15
Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium leprae	14
Two-component systems regulate bacterial virulence in response to the host gastrointestinal environment and metabolic cues	14
The two-component signal transduction system and its regulation in Candida albicans	14
Reliability of induced sputum test is greater than that of throat swab test for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19: A multi-center cross-sectional study	14
Pathogenicity and virulence ofBurkholderia pseudomallei	14
Helicobacter pylori GmhB enzyme involved in ADP-heptose biosynthesis pathway is essential for lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and bacterial virulence	14
Sirtuin 3 is essential for host defense against Mycobacterium abscessus infection through regulation of mitochondrial homeostasis	14
Pathogenicity and virulence of Rickettsia	14
Identification of conditionally essential genes for Streptococcus suis infection in pigs	14
Candida albicans adhesion to central venous catheters: Impact of blood plasma-driven germ tube formation and pathogen-derived adhesins	14
Antimicrobial resistance and gene regulation in Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli from Egyptian children with diarrhoea: Similarities and differences	13
Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation in cystic fibrosis patients increases C5a levels and promotes neutrophil recruitment	13
Pathogenicity and virulence of malaria: Sticky problems and tricky solutions	13
Arachidonic acid metabolism is elevated inMycoplasma gallisepticumandEscherichia colico-infection and induces LTC4 in serum as the biomarker for detecting poultry respiratory disease	13
Defective phagocyte association during infection of Galleria mellonella with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is detrimental to both insect host and microbe	13
Dynamic Dissection of Dynein and Kinesin-1 Cooperatively Mediated Intercellular Transport of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Coronavirus along Microtubule Using Single Virus Tracking	13
Novel therapeutic strategies for chronic hepatitis B	13
Shorter incubation period is associated with severe disease progression in patients with COVID-19	13
Pathogenicity and virulence of influenza	13
A novel transcription factor UvCGBP1 regulates development and virulence of rice false smut fungus Ustilaginoidea virens	13
Vagus nerve plays a pivotal role in CD4+ T cell differentiation during CVB3-induced murine acute myocarditis	13
Distribution and antifungal susceptibility pattern ofCandidaspecies from mainland China: A systematic analysis	13
Time-dependent viral interference between influenza virus and coronavirus in the infection of differentiated porcine airway epithelial cells	13
The antimicrobial systems of Streptococcus suis promote niche competition in pig tonsils	13
Complement receptor 3 mediates Aspergillus fumigatus internalization into alveolar epithelial cells with the increase of intracellular phosphatidic acid by activating FAK	12
Koi sleepy disease as a pathophysiological and immunological consequence of a branchial infection of common carp with carp edema virus	12
Clinical characteristics of asymptomatic carriers of novel coronavirus disease 2019: A multi-center study in Jiangsu Province	12
Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) caterpillars as a novel host model for the study of fungal virulence and drug efficacy	12
Luteolin decreases the pathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila via inhibiting the activity of aerolysin	12
Insights into the molecular determinants involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence and their therapeutic implications	12
Exoproteomic profiling uncovers critical determinants for virulence of livestock-associated and human-originated Staphylococcus aureus ST398 strains	12
Pathogenicity and virulence of African trypanosomes: From laboratory models to clinically relevant hosts	12
A biological and genomic comparison of a drug-resistant and a drug-susceptible strain of Candida auris isolated from Beijing, China	12
Novel biomarkers for the prediction of COVID-19 progression a retrospective, multi-center cohort study	12
Exploration of turn-positive RT-PCR results and factors related to treatment outcome in COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study	12

DIM5/KMT1 controls fungal insect pathogenicity and genome stability by methylation of histone H3K4, H3K9 and H3K36	12
Genetic architecture of transmission stage production and virulence in schistosome parasites	12
Emergent SARS-CoV-2 variants: comparative replication dynamics and high sensitivity to thapsigargin	12
A novel phosphoinositide kinase Fab1 regulates biosynthesis of pathogenic aflatoxin in Aspergillus flavus	12
Set2 family regulates mycotoxin metabolism and virulence via H3K36 methylation in pathogenic fungus Aspergillus flavus	12
ABO blood group is involved in the quality of the specific immune response anti-SARS-CoV-2	12