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| 2 | Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 | New England Journal of Medicine | 2020 | 7,369 |
| 3 | Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence | Nature | 1998 | 7,357 |
| 4 | DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery | Genome Biology | 2003 | 7,168 |
| 5 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 6 | Macrophage Activation and Polarization: Nomenclature and Experimental Guidelines | Immunity | 2014 | 4,638 |
| 7 | Tolerance, Danger, and the Extended Family | Annual Review of Immunology | 1994 | 4,369 |
| 8 | Amino Acid Metabolism in Mammalian Cell Cultures | Science | 1959 | 4,218 |
| 9 | Protective and pathogenic functions of macrophage subsets | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2011 | 4,050 |
| 10 | Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008* | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2008 | 3,827 |
| 11 | The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self | Science | 2002 | 3,706 |
| 12 | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of fibrosis | Journal of Pathology | 2008 | 3,551 |
| 13 | Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease | Nature | 2013 | 3,541 |
| 14 | Role of the Microbiota in Immunity and Inflammation | Cell | 2014 | 3,494 |
| 15 | An assay for circulating antibodies to a major etiologic virus of human non-A, non-B hepatitis | Science | 1989 | 3,478 |
| 16 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 17 | Microbial translocation is a cause of systemic immune activation in chronic HIV infection | Nature Medicine | 2006 | 3,107 |
| 18 | CC CKR5: A RANTES, MIP-1 , MIP-1 Receptor as a Fusion Cofactor for Macrophage-Tropic HIV-1 | Science | 1996 | 2,814 |
| 19 | Viral Load and Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 | New England Journal of Medicine | 2000 | 2,788 |
| 20 | Differentiation of Effector CD4 T Cell Populations | Annual Review of Immunology | 2010 | 2,783 |
| 21 | SARS and MERS: recent insights into emerging coronaviruses | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2016 | 2,752 |
| 22 | Mechanisms of fibrosis: therapeutic translation for fibrotic disease | Nature Medicine | 2012 | 2,601 |
| 23 | Macrophages in Tissue Repair, Regeneration, and Fibrosis | Immunity | 2016 | 2,591 |
| 24 | Functional assessment of cell entry and receptor usage for SARS-CoV-2 and other lineage B betacoronaviruses | Nature Microbiology | 2020 | 2,585 |
| 25 | A functionally specialized population of mucosal CD103+ DCs induces Foxp3+ regulatory T cells via a TGF-β– and retinoic acid–dependent mechanism | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2007 | 2,457 |
| 26 | Activation and regulation of the inflammasomes | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2013 | 2,373 |
| 27 | CD4+CD25+ Immunoregulatory T Cells Suppress Polyclonal T Cell Activation In Vitro by Inhibiting Interleukin 2 Production | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1998 | 2,323 |
| 28 | Analysis of Fractalkine Receptor CX 3 CR1 Function by Targeted Deletion and Green Fluorescent Protein Reporter Gene Insertion | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 2000 | 2,319 |
| 29 | A guide to cancer immunotherapy: from T cell basic science to clinical practice | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2020 | 2,160 |
| 30 | The DAVID Gene Functional Classification Tool: a novel biological module-centric algorithm to functionally analyze large gene lists | Genome Biology | 2007 | 2,105 |
| 31 | The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of giant cell arteritis | Arthritis and Rheumatism | 1990 | 2,068 |
| 32 | Waves of resistance: Staphylococcus aureus in the antibiotic era | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2009 | 2,049 |
| 33 | Structure, Regulation and Function of NF-kappaB | Annual Review of Cell Biology | 1994 | 2,048 |
| 34 | CHEMOKINE RECEPTORS AS HIV-1 CORECEPTORS: Roles in Viral Entry, Tropism, and Disease | Annual Review of Immunology | 1999 | 2,044 |
| 35 | Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19 | Science | 2020 | 1,983 |
| 36 | Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya: a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2007 | 1,982 |
| 37 | CD4+CD25+ suppressor T cells: more questions than answers | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2002 | 1,968 |
| 38 | Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial | Lancet, The | 2007 | 1,961 |
| 39 | Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin A cause Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome | Nature | 2003 | 1,925 |
| 40 | Interferon-gamma and B cell stimulatory factor-1 reciprocally regulate Ig isotype production | Science | 1987 | 1,908 |
| 41 | Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Aspergillosis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2016 | 1,861 |
| 42 | A new medium for the axenic cultivation of Entamoeba histolytica and other Entamoeba | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1978 | 1,844 |
| 43 | The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of churg‐strauss syndrome (allergic granulomatosis and angiitis) | Arthritis and Rheumatism | 1990 | 1,838 |
| 44 | HIV infection is active and progressive in lymphoid tissue during the clinically latent stage of disease | Nature | 1993 | 1,837 |
| 45 | A cell culture model for T lymphocyte clonal anergy | Science | 1990 | 1,828 |
| 46 | Mast cells | Physiological Reviews | 1997 | 1,815 |
| 47 | Signaling by intrathymic cytokines, not T cell antigen receptors, specifies CD8 lineage choice and promotes the differentiation of cytotoxic-lineage T cells | Nature Immunology | 2010 | 1,811 |
| 48 | Random-effects model for meta-analysis of clinical trials: An update | Contemporary Clinical Trials | 2007 | 1,801 |
| 49 | The American College of Rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of takayasu arteritis | Arthritis and Rheumatism | 1990 | 1,799 |
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