| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study | Lancet, The | 2011 | 902 |
| 2 | Human T-lymphotropic virus 1: recent knowledge about an ancient infection | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2007 | 622 |
| 3 | Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 466 |
| 4 | Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 326 |
| 5 | The Laboratory Diagnosis and Follow Up of Strongyloidiasis: A Systematic Review | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2013 | 298 |
| 6 | Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay in High Burden Countries: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | PLoS Medicine | 2011 | 264 |
| 7 | What Makes a Bacterial Species Pathogenic?:Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Genus Leptospira | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2016 | 253 |
| 8 | Strongyloides stercoralis: A Plea for Action | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2013 | 249 |
| 9 | Proposal for Diagnostic Criteria of Tropical Spastic Paraparesis/HTLV-I-Associated Myelopathy (TSP/HAM) | AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses | 2006 | 219 |
| 10 | Cutaneous tuberculosis | Clinics in Dermatology | 2007 | 216 |
| 11 | Clinical Spectrum of Pulmonary Involvement in Leptospirosis in a Region of Endemicity, with Quantification of Leptospiral Burden | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2005 | 195 |
| 12 | Strongyloides stercoralis: there but not seen | Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases | 2010 | 183 |
| 13 | Determining Risk for Severe Leptospirosis by Molecular Analysis of Environmental Surface Waters for Pathogenic Leptospira | PLoS Medicine | 2006 | 180 |
| 14 | Diagnosis of Leishmania Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction: a Simplified Procedure for Field Work | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1993 | 174 |
| 15 | Universal Definition of Loss to Follow-Up in HIV Treatment Programs: A Statistical Analysis of 111 Facilities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America | PLoS Medicine | 2011 | 167 |
| 16 | Extreme inbreeding in Leishmania braziliensis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 158 |
| 17 | Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection associated with human T cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection in Peru. | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1999 | 158 |
| 18 | Rapid Dissemination and Diversity of CTX-M Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Genes in Commensal Escherichia coli Isolates from Healthy Children from Low-Resource Settings in Latin America | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2007 | 146 |
| 19 | Cutaneous Mycobacterial Infections | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2018 | 144 |
| 20 | Clinical and Parasite Species Risk Factors for Pentavalent Antimonial Treatment Failure in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Peru | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2008 | 130 |
| 21 | Ivermectin versus albendazole or thiabendazole for Strongyloides stercoralis infection | The Cochrane Library | 2016 | 124 |
| 22 | Asymptomatic Renal Colonization of Humans in the Peruvian Amazon by Leptospira | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2010 | 114 |
| 23 | Association of the Endobiont Double-Stranded RNA Virus LRV1 With Treatment Failure for Human Leishmaniasis Caused byLeishmania braziliensisin Peru and Bolivia | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2016 | 114 |
| 24 | Regulatory T Cell Expansion in HTLV-1 and Strongyloidiasis Co-infection Is Associated with Reduced IL-5 Responses to Strongyloides stercoralis Antigen | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2009 | 108 |
| 25 | Knowledge, attitudes and practice survey about antimicrobial resistance and prescribing among physicians in a hospital setting in Lima, Peru | BMC Clinical Pharmacology | 2011 | 106 |
| 26 | Oxygen saturation as a predictor of mortality in hospitalized adult patients with COVID-19 in a public hospital in Lima, Peru | PLoS ONE | 2020 | 106 |
| 27 | Bartonellosis | Clinics in Dermatology | 2009 | 105 |
| 28 | Multiple independent introductions of Plasmodium falciparum in South America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 100 |
| 29 | Multilaboratory Study of Epidemiological Cutoff Values for Detection of Resistance in Eight Candida Species to Fluconazole, Posaconazole, and Voriconazole | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2014 | 96 |
| 30 | A Prospective Cohort Multicenter Study of Molecular Epidemiology and Phylogenomics of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Nine Latin American Countries | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2017 | 95 |
| 31 | Successful Treatment ofBalamuthia mandrillarisAmoebic Infection with Extensive Neurological and Cutaneous Involvement | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2010 | 91 |
| 32 | Real-Time PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Leishmania (Viannia) Organisms in Skin and Mucosal Lesions: Exploratory Study of Parasite Load and Clinical Parameters | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2013 | 84 |
| 33 | Carbapenem resistance inPseudomonas aeruginosaandAcinetobacter baumanniiin the nosocomial setting in Latin America | Critical Reviews in Microbiology | 2016 | 83 |
| 34 | Comparison of single-dose treatment with norfloxacin and standard 5-day treatment with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for acute shigellosis in adults | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1989 | 82 |
| 35 | Detection of CTX-M-Type β-Lactamase Genes in Fecal Escherichia coli Isolates from Healthy Children in Bolivia and Peru | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2004 | 81 |
| 36 | Use of Norfloxacin to Treat Chronic Typhoid Carriers | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1988 | 76 |
| 37 | Mortality During the First Year of Potent Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-1-Infected Patients in 7 Sites Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999) | 2009 | 71 |
| 38 | Induced Sputum MMP-1, -3 & -8 Concentrations during Treatment of Tuberculosis | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 70 |
| 39 | New insights on the emergence of cholera in Latin America during 1991: the Peruvian experience. | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2000 | 69 |
| 40 | Cholera in Lima, Peru, Correlates with Prior Isolation of Vibrio cholerae from the Environment | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1997 | 67 |
| 41 | Association Between the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Infection With Salmonella typhi or Salmonella paratyphi in an Endemic Typhoid Area | Archives of Internal Medicine | 1991 | 66 |
| 42 | Natural Leishmania infection of Lutzomyia spp. in Peru | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1994 | 64 |
| 43 | A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the LEISH-F1+MPL-SE vaccine when used in combination with sodium stibogluconate for the treatment of mucosal leishmaniasis | Vaccine | 2010 | 64 |
| 44 | Prevalence of strongyloidiasis in Latin America: a systematic review of the literature | Epidemiology and Infection | 2015 | 64 |
| 45 | An approach for interlaboratory comparison of conventional and real-time PCR assays for diagnosis of human leishmaniasis | Experimental Parasitology | 2013 | 62 |
| 46 | Interplay between MexAB-OprM and MexEF-OprN in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 61 |
| 47 | Whole Genome Analysis of Leptospira licerasiae Provides Insight into Leptospiral Evolution and Pathogenicity | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2012 | 60 |
| 48 | Ecological divergence and hybridization of Neotropical Leishmania parasites | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 60 |
| 49 | Cross-Sectional Analysis of Late HAART Initiation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Late Testers and Late Presenters | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 59 |
| 50 | Plasmodium vivax Diversity and Population Structure across Four Continents | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2015 | 59 |
