| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 18,390 |
| 2 | Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 17,125 |
| 3 | A new technique for the assay of infectivity of human adenovirus 5 DNA | Virology | 1973 | 10,866 |
| 4 | Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes coding for 16S rRNA | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1993 | 9,925 |
| 5 | Greengenes, a Chimera-Checked 16S rRNA Gene Database and Workbench Compatible with ARB | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 9,859 |
| 6 | 16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study | Journal of Bacteriology | 1991 | 9,825 |
| 7 | An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1987 | 9,414 |
| 8 | Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2012 | 8,996 |
| 9 | Transformation of intact yeast cells treated with alkali cations | Journal of Bacteriology | 1983 | 7,993 |
| 10 | Essential oils: their antibacterial properties and potential applications in foods—a review | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2004 | 7,728 |
| 11 | Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1995 | 7,611 |
| 12 | Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms | ISME Journal | 2012 | 7,430 |
| 13 | The biofilm matrix | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2010 | 7,296 |
| 14 | UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 7,007 |
| 15 | STUDIES OF MARINE PLANKTONIC DIATOMS: I. CYCLOTELLA NANA HUSTEDT, AND DETONULA CONFERVACEA (CLEVE) GRAN. | Canadian Journal of Microbiology | 1962 | 6,913 |
| 16 | Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reconciliation of Approaches to Bacterial Systematics | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 1987 | 6,622 |
| 17 | Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2011 | 6,130 |
| 18 | Approved Lists of Bacterial Names | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 1980 | 6,087 |
| 19 | Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 5,923 |
| 20 | Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 5,865 |
| 21 | Introducing EzBioCloud: a taxonomically united database of 16S rRNA gene sequences and whole-genome assemblies | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2017 | 5,862 |
| 22 | Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 1999 | 5,823 |
| 23 | Taxonomic Note: A Place for DNA-DNA Reassociation and 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis in the Present Species Definition in Bacteriology | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 1994 | 5,819 |
| 24 | The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Microbiology | 2020 | 5,799 |
| 25 | CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting | American Journal of Infection Control | 2008 | 5,758 |
| 26 | Bacterial biofilms: from the Natural environment to infectious diseases | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2004 | 5,690 |
| 27 | Parasitology Meets Ecology on Its Own Terms: Margolis et al. Revisited | Journal of Parasitology | 1997 | 5,608 |
| 28 | Plant Products as Antimicrobial Agents | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1999 | 5,525 |
| 29 | CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988 | American Journal of Infection Control | 1988 | 5,396 |
| 30 | Biofilms: Survival Mechanisms of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2002 | 5,321 |
| 31 | Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2007 | 5,203 |
| 32 | Introducing EzTaxon-e: a prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene sequence database with phylotypes that represent uncultured species | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2012 | 4,898 |
| 33 | Antimicrobial peptides: pore formers or metabolic inhibitors in bacteria? | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2005 | 4,822 |
| 34 | An integrated procedure for the extraction of bacterial isoprenoid quinones and polar lipids | Journal of Microbiological Methods | 1984 | 4,801 |
| 35 | Characteristics of a Human Cell Line Transformed by DNA from Human Adenovirus Type 5 | Journal of General Virology | 1977 | 4,707 |
| 36 | Rapid and simple method for purification of nucleic acids | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1990 | 4,672 |
| 37 | An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea | ISME Journal | 2012 | 4,581 |
| 38 | Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species | Journal of Bacteriology | 1990 | 4,577 |
| 39 | Tight regulation, modulation, and high-level expression by vectors containing the arabinose PBAD promoter | Journal of Bacteriology | 1995 | 4,522 |
| 40 | Identification of acquired antimicrobial resistance genes | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2012 | 4,515 |
| 41 | Construction and characterization of amplifiable multicopy DNA cloning vehicles derived from the P15A cryptic miniplasmid | Journal of Bacteriology | 1978 | 4,510 |
| 42 | Microbial Biofilms | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1995 | 4,494 |
| 43 | Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: A rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1985 | 4,420 |
| 44 | Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2008 | 4,375 |
| 45 | Development of Virus-Like Particle Technology from Small Highly Symmetric to Large Complex Virus-Like Particle Structures | Intervirology | 2013 | 4,267 |
| 46 | Bad Bugs, No Drugs: No ESKAPE! An Update from the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2009 | 4,237 |
| 47 | Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1998 | 4,216 |
| 48 | Generic Assignments, Strain Histories and Properties of Pure Cultures of Cyanobacteria | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1979 | 4,194 |
| 49 | Use of nuclepore filters for counting bacteria by fluorescence microscopy | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1977 | 4,148 |
| 50 | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19): The epidemic and the challenges | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2020 | 4,124 |
| 51 | Quorum Sensing in Bacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2001 | 4,088 |
| 52 | Pathogenic Escherichia coli | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2004 | 4,065 |
| 53 | Origins and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2010 | 4,061 |
| 54 | Characteristics of the Microplate Method of Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for the Detection of Plant Viruses | Journal of General Virology | 1977 | 4,013 |
| 55 | Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2019 | 3,993 |
| 56 | DNA–DNA hybridization values and their relationship to whole-genome sequence similarities | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2007 | 3,968 |
| 57 | Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2020 | 3,955 |
| 58 | Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in US Hospitals: Analysis of 24,179 Cases from a Prospective Nationwide Surveillance Study | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2004 | 3,871 |
| 59 | Dysregulation of Immune Response in Patients With Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2020 | 3,858 |
| 60 | Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 1999 | 3,777 |
| 61 | Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2016 | 3,725 |
| 62 | Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1990 | 3,720 |
| 63 | Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1999 | 3,661 |
| 64 | Microbial Cellulose Utilization: Fundamentals and Biotechnology | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2002 | 3,654 |
| 65 | The Growth of Bacterial Cultures | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1949 | 3,608 |
| 66 | Biofilms: Microbial Life on Surfaces | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 3,560 |
| 67 | In Silico Detection and Typing of Plasmids using PlasmidFinder and Plasmid Multilocus Sequence Typing | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2014 | 3,558 |
| 68 | Receptor Recognition by the Novel Coronavirus from Wuhan: an Analysis Based on Decade-Long Structural Studies of SARS Coronavirus | Journal of Virology | 2020 | 3,520 |
| 69 | Biochar effects on soil biota – A review | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2011 | 3,514 |
| 70 | MUTANTS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI REQUIRING METHIONINE OR VITAMIN B 12 | Journal of Bacteriology | 1950 | 3,476 |
| 71 | Epidemiology of Invasive Candidiasis: a Persistent Public Health Problem | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2007 | 3,459 |
| 72 | Does the Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Depend on the Shape of the Nanoparticle? A Study of the Gram-Negative Bacterium Escherichia coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 3,422 |
| 73 | Proposed Modifications to the Duke Criteria for the Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2000 | 3,392 |
| 74 | Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Guidelines for Developing an Institutional Program to Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2007 | 3,390 |
| 75 | Molecular Basis of Bacterial Outer Membrane Permeability Revisited | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2003 | 3,359 |
| 76 | Modeling of the Bacterial Growth Curve | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1990 | 3,339 |
| 77 | Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2021 | 3,334 |
| 78 | Development of primer sets designed for use with the PCR to amplify conserved genes from filamentous ascomycetes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1995 | 3,327 |
| 79 | Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Management | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2015 | 3,304 |
| 80 | Vaccine hesitancy: Definition, scope and determinants | Vaccine | 2015 | 3,286 |
| 81 | Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 3,268 |
| 82 | Tetracycline Antibiotics: Mode of Action, Applications, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology of Bacterial Resistance | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2001 | 3,242 |
| 83 | Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin | Microbiome | 2018 | 3,159 |
| 84 | Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil | ISME Journal | 2010 | 3,154 |
| 85 | Mechanisms of biofilm resistance to antimicrobial agents | Trends in Microbiology | 2001 | 3,142 |
| 86 | Prevalence of comorbidities and its effects in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2: a systematic review and meta-analysis | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2020 | 3,138 |
| 87 | Transduction of linked genetic characters of the host by bacteriophage P1 | Virology | 1955 | 3,123 |
| 88 | Synchronization of Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocytic Stages in Culture | Journal of Parasitology | 1979 | 3,118 |
| 89 | Use of p-nitrophenyl phosphate for assay of soil phosphatase activity | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1969 | 3,108 |
| 90 | Antimicrobial agents from plants: antibacterial activity of plant volatile oils | Journal of Applied Microbiology | 2000 | 3,085 |
| 91 | Determination of minimum inhibitory concentrations | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2001 | 3,076 |
| 92 | The Aerobic Pseudomonads a Taxonomic Study | Journal of General Microbiology | 1966 | 3,044 |
| 93 | Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2009 | 3,036 |
| 94 | Rapid procedure for detection and isolation of large and small plasmids | Journal of Bacteriology | 1981 | 3,028 |
| 95 | Production of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-associated retrovirus in human and nonhuman cells transfected with an infectious molecular clone | Journal of Virology | 1986 | 3,020 |
| 96 | Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1): An Overview | Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research | 2009 | 2,967 |
| 97 | Antimicrobial activity of flavonoids | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2005 | 2,953 |
| 98 | A Third-Generation Lentivirus Vector with a Conditional Packaging System | Journal of Virology | 1998 | 2,931 |
| 99 | STUDIES ON LYSOGENESIS I | Journal of Bacteriology | 1951 | 2,907 |
| 100 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2009 | 2,904 |
