| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 466 |
| 2 | First cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the WHO European Region, 24 January to 21 February 2020 | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 427 |
| 3 | Experimental Treatment with Favipiravir for Ebola Virus Disease (the JIKI Trial): A Historically Controlled, Single-Arm Proof-of-Concept Trial in Guinea | PLoS Medicine | 2016 | 382 |
| 4 | Massive and rapid COVID-19 testing is feasible by extraction-free SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR | Nature Communications | 2020 | 357 |
| 5 | Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 326 |
| 6 | Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries and territories in the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Initiative: a prospective analysis of surveillance data | The Lancet Digital Health | 2021 | 260 |
| 7 | Genomic analysis of globally diverse Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains provides insights into the emergence and spread of multidrug resistance | Nature Genetics | 2017 | 258 |
| 8 | Dysregulation in Akt/mTOR/HIF-1 signaling identified by proteo-transcriptomics of SARS-CoV-2 infected cells | Emerging Microbes and Infections | 2020 | 221 |
| 9 | Evolutionary pathway to increased virulence and epidemic group A Streptococcus disease derived from 3,615 genome sequences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 215 |
| 10 | Public Health Agency of Sweden's Brief Report: Pregnant and postpartum women with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in intensive care in Sweden | Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica | 2020 | 189 |
| 11 | Clinical Efficacy of Polyspecific Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy in Patients With Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome: A Comparative Observational Study | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2014 | 186 |
| 12 | Escherichia coli Sequence Type 410 Is Causing New International High-Risk Clones | MSphere | 2018 | 183 |
| 13 | Excess all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – preliminary pooled estimates from the EuroMOMO network, March to April 2020 | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 174 |
| 14 | Hepatitis E virus: Assessment of the epidemiological situation in humans in Europe, 2014/15 | Journal of Clinical Virology | 2016 | 168 |
| 15 | Population-based resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates to pyrazinamide and fluoroquinolones: results from a multicountry surveillance project | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2016 | 151 |
| 16 | Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics | Nature | 2022 | 138 |
| 17 | Effects of PCV7 and PCV13 on invasive pneumococcal disease and carriage in Stockholm, Sweden | European Respiratory Journal | 2016 | 125 |
| 18 | Effect of childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccination on invasive disease in older adults of 10 European countries: implications for adult vaccination | Thorax | 2019 | 125 |
| 19 | Comparison of the Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 10 or Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 13 on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Equivalent Populations | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2017 | 123 |
| 20 | Lessons learnt during 20 years of the Swedish strategic programme against antibiotic resistance | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2017 | 122 |
| 21 | A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2018 | 121 |
| 22 | Genetic sequencing for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis in highly endemic countries: a multi-country population-based surveillance study | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2018 | 119 |
| 23 | Worsening epidemiological situation of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe, assessment by national experts from 37 countries, July 2018 | Eurosurveillance | 2019 | 118 |
| 24 | Surveillance of adverse events in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: first global report | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 113 |
| 25 | Diagnostic Performance of the New Version (v2.0) of GenoType MTBDR sl Assay for Detection of Resistance to Fluoroquinolones and Second-Line Injectable Drugs: a Multicenter Study | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2015 | 111 |
| 26 | Quadrivalent HPV vaccine effectiveness against high‐grade cervical lesions by age at vaccination: A population‐based study | International Journal of Cancer | 2016 | 108 |
| 27 | Sweden, the first country to achieve the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)/World Health Organization (WHO) 90‐90‐90 continuum of HIV care targets | HIV Medicine | 2017 | 108 |
| 28 | Forms of gambling, gambling involvement and problem gambling: evidence from a Swedish population survey | International Gambling Studies | 2017 | 107 |
| 29 | Large and prolonged food-borne multistate hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014 | Eurosurveillance | 2015 | 101 |
| 30 | Effect of high-valency pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease in children in SpIDnet countries: an observational multicentre study | Lancet Respiratory Medicine,the | 2017 | 96 |
| 31 | Knowledge and Attitudes towards Antibiotic Use and Resistance - A Latent Class Analysis of a Swedish Population-Based Sample | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 96 |
| 32 | European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered? | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2019 | 91 |
| 33 | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the surveillance, prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance: a global survey | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2021 | 88 |
| 34 | Revisiting susceptibility testing in MDR-TB by a standardized quantitative phenotypic assessment in a European multicentre study | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2015 | 87 |
| 35 | The prevalence, incidence, and gender and age‐specific incidence of problem gambling: results of the Swedish longitudinal gambling study (Swelogs) | Addiction | 2018 | 87 |
| 36 | Vaccination of healthcare personnel in Europe: Update to current policies | Vaccine | 2019 | 86 |
| 37 | Development and deployment of a rapid recombinase polymerase amplification Ebola virus detection assay in Guinea in 2015 | Eurosurveillance | 2015 | 86 |
| 38 | The Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study (Swelogs): design and methods of the epidemiological (EP‐) track | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | 2014 | 85 |
| 39 | Participatory Syndromic Surveillance of Influenza in Europe | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2016 | 83 |
| 40 | An international outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis linked to eggs from Poland: a microbiological and epidemiological study | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2019 | 81 |
| 41 | Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among Escherichia coli in wastewater in Stockholm during 1 year: does it reflect the resistance trends in the society? | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2015 | 80 |
| 42 | Expansion of SARS-CoV-2–Specific Antibody-Secreting Cells and Generation of Neutralizing Antibodies in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients | Journal of Immunology | 2020 | 79 |
| 43 | Waterborne outbreaks in the Nordic countries, 1998 to 2012 | Eurosurveillance | 2015 | 79 |
| 44 | High Applicability of a Novel Method for gp60-Based Subtyping of Cryptosporidium meleagridis | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2014 | 74 |
| 45 | Antimicrobial resistance: a threat to global health | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2018 | 74 |
| 46 | Multiple human-to-human transmission from a severe case of psittacosis, Sweden, January–February 2013 | Eurosurveillance | 2014 | 74 |
| 47 | Prevalence of drug use during sex amongst MSM in Europe: Results from a multi-site bio-behavioural survey | International Journal of Drug Policy | 2018 | 73 |
| 48 | Identification of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry: Results of an Interlaboratory Ring Trial | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2015 | 71 |
| 49 | Fatal encephalitis associated with coronavirus OC43 in an immunocompromised child | Infectious Diseases | 2020 | 69 |
| 50 | Monoclonal antibodies for the S2 subunit of spike of SARS-CoV-1 cross-react with the newly-emerged SARS-CoV-2 | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 69 |
