| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2021 | 2,650 |
| 2 | The Growing Burden of Tuberculosis | Archives of Internal Medicine | 2003 | 2,147 |
| 3 | Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England | Science | 2021 | 2,103 |
| 4 | Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm | Lancet, The | 2006 | 1,981 |
| 5 | IL-10: The Master Regulator of Immunity to Infection | Journal of Immunology | 2008 | 1,789 |
| 6 | Advances in leishmaniasis | Lancet, The | 2005 | 1,451 |
| 7 | Causes of vision loss worldwide, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis | The Lancet Global Health | 2013 | 1,317 |
| 8 | Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague | Nature | 2001 | 1,144 |
| 9 | Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2003 | 886 |
| 10 | A large focus of naturally acquired Plasmodium knowlesi infections in human beings | Lancet, The | 2004 | 877 |
| 11 | The multidrug-resistant human pathogen Clostridium difficile has a highly mobile, mosaic genome | Nature Genetics | 2006 | 821 |
| 12 | The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica | Nature | 2005 | 783 |
| 13 | Increased mortality in community-tested cases of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 | Nature | 2021 | 775 |
| 14 | Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus | Nature Microbiology | 2019 | 699 |
| 15 | Visceral leishmaniasis: current status of control, diagnosis, and treatment, and a proposed research and development agenda | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2002 | 678 |
| 16 | Antimalarial drug discovery: efficacy models for compound screening | Nature Reviews Drug Discovery | 2004 | 633 |
| 17 | National and regional estimates of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age in 138 low-income and middle-income countries in 2010 | The Lancet Global Health | 2013 | 577 |
| 18 | Differential glycosylation of TH1, TH2 and TH-17 effector cells selectively regulates susceptibility to cell death | Nature Immunology | 2007 | 574 |
| 19 | Malaria in 2002 | Nature | 2002 | 572 |
| 20 | The impact of Chagas disease control in Latin America: a review | Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 2002 | 560 |
| 21 | Innate immunity to malaria | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2004 | 555 |
| 22 | Preterm-associated visual impairment and estimates of retinopathy of prematurity at regional and global levels for 2010 | Pediatric Research | 2013 | 538 |
| 23 | Increased proportions of outdoor feeding among residual malaria vector populations following increased use of insecticide-treated nets in rural Tanzania | Malaria Journal | 2011 | 534 |
| 24 | A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains | Nature Communications | 2014 | 531 |
| 25 | Characterising long COVID: a living systematic review | BMJ Global Health | 2021 | 523 |
| 26 | Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 2008 | 516 |
| 27 | Factors determining the occurrence of submicroscopic malaria infections and their relevance for control | Nature Communications | 2012 | 490 |
| 28 | Management of latentMycobacterium tuberculosisinfection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries | European Respiratory Journal | 2015 | 475 |
| 29 | The complete genome sequence of Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia | Nature Genetics | 2005 | 436 |
| 30 | Melioidosis | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2018 | 430 |
| 31 | Climate change and the resurgence of malaria in the East African highlands | Nature | 2002 | 429 |
| 32 | Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2010 | 421 |
| 33 | Phylogeographical analysis of the dominant multidrug-resistant H58 clade of Salmonella Typhi identifies inter- and intracontinental transmission events | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 403 |
| 34 | Antitrypanosomal and Antileishmanial Activities of Flavonoids and Their Analogues: In Vitro, In Vivo, Structure-Activity Relationship, and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Studies | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2006 | 400 |
| 35 | Diagnosis of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | Annals of Neurology | 2000 | 398 |
| 36 | HIV-1 and recurrence, relapse, and reinfection of tuberculosis after cure: a cohort study in South African mineworkers | Lancet, The | 2001 | 388 |
| 37 | El Niño and health | Lancet, The | 2003 | 387 |
| 38 | Advances in tuberculosis diagnostics: the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and future prospects for a point-of-care test | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2013 | 385 |
| 39 | Bacterial pathogenomics | Nature | 2007 | 374 |
| 40 | Effect of nitazoxanide on morbidity and mortality in Zambian children with cryptosporidiosis: a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2002 | 373 |
| 41 | Methods for Cultivation of Luminal Parasitic Protists of Clinical Importance | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2002 | 371 |
| 42 | Risk factors, barriers and facilitators for linkage to antiretroviral therapy care | Aids | 2012 | 364 |
| 43 | Sanitation and Health | PLoS Medicine | 2010 | 358 |
| 44 | Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis | Clinical Epidemiology | 2014 | 353 |
| 45 | Prevalence of wheeze and asthma and relation to atopy in urban and rural Ethiopia | Lancet, The | 1997 | 352 |
| 46 | Mechanism of genetic exchange in American trypanosomes | Nature | 2003 | 330 |
| 47 | Classification, evolution, and species groups within the Triatominae | Acta Tropica | 2009 | 327 |
| 48 | The Yersiniae — a model genus to study the rapid evolution of bacterial pathogens | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2003 | 320 |
| 49 | History of the discovery of the malaria parasites and their vectors | Parasites and Vectors | 2010 | 315 |
| 50 | Huge poor–rich inequalities in maternity care: an international comparative study of maternity and child care in developing countries | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2007 | 307 |
