| 1 | Antibiotics: past, present and future | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2019 | 1,620 |
| 2 | Microbial diversity and function in soil: from genes to ecosystems | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2002 | 1,193 |
| 3 | Diversity, classification and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2017 | 1,021 |
| 4 | The CTX-M β-lactamase pandemic | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2006 | 924 |
| 5 | Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and human intestinal health | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2013 | 913 |
| 6 | Oxidative stress | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 1999 | 898 |
| 7 | Antibiotic resistance gene spread due to manure application on agricultural fields | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2011 | 767 |
| 8 | Comparative genomics: the bacterial pan-genome | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2008 | 755 |
| 9 | Spore germination | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2003 | 711 |
| 10 | How bacteria talk to each other: regulation of gene expression by quorum sensing | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 1999 | 666 |
| 11 | Bacterial biofilm development as a multicellular adaptation: antibiotic resistance and new therapeutic strategies | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2013 | 623 |
| 12 | Antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation: a bright new technique to kill resistant microbes | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2016 | 623 |
| 13 | Fusobacterium nucleatum: a commensal-turned pathogen | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2015 | 619 |
| 14 | The biological cost of antibiotic resistance | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 1999 | 615 |
| 15 | Two-component and phosphorelay signal transduction | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2000 | 605 |
| 16 | Quorum sensing and environmental adaptation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a tale of regulatory networks and multifunctional signal molecules | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2009 | 597 |
| 17 | Regulation of secondary metabolism in streptomycetes | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2005 | 587 |
| 18 | DGGE/TGGE a method for identifying genes from natural ecosystems | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 1999 | 573 |
| 19 | Antibiotic resistance in the environment: a link to the clinic? | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2010 | 569 |
| 20 | Alternatives to antibiotics for the control of bacterial disease in aquaculture | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2011 | 561 |
| 21 | Iron and metal regulation in bacteria | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2001 | 544 |
| 22 | The world of subinhibitory antibiotic concentrations | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2006 | 540 |
| 23 | LuxS quorum sensing: more than just a numbers game | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2003 | 517 |
| 24 | Reverse vaccinology | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2000 | 516 |
| 25 | P. aeruginosa quorum-sensing systems and virulence | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2003 | 507 |
| 26 | Dysbiotic Proteobacteria expansion: a microbial signature of epithelial dysfunction | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2017 | 507 |
| 27 | The mechanisms of carbon catabolite repression in bacteria | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2008 | 502 |
| 28 | Sporulation of Bacillus subtilis | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2004 | 475 |
| 29 | Biofilm dispersion and quorum sensing | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2014 | 462 |
| 30 | Staphylococcus aureus toxins | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2014 | 458 |
| 31 | Glucose repression in yeast | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 1999 | 452 |
| 32 | Klebsiella pneumoniae as a key trafficker of drug resistance genes from environmental to clinically important bacteria | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2018 | 448 |
| 33 | The role of gamma interferon in antimicrobial immunity | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2001 | 440 |
| 34 | Type VI secretion: a beginner's guide | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2008 | 440 |
| 35 | Microbial hemicellulases | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2003 | 428 |
| 36 | The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2011 | 422 |
| 37 | Role of polysaccharides in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2007 | 421 |
| 38 | Antifungal drug resistance: evolution, mechanisms and impact | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2018 | 412 |
| 39 | Bacteriophage endolysins — current state of research and applications | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2005 | 411 |
| 40 | The biology of restriction and anti-restriction | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2005 | 407 |
| 41 | Is bioaugmentation a feasible strategy for pollutant removal and site remediation? | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2005 | 406 |
| 42 | The biomass objective function | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2010 | 394 |
| 43 | How to build a biofilm: a fungal perspective | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2006 | 392 |
| 44 | Identifying global regulators in transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2003 | 382 |
| 45 | Prokaryotic sulfur oxidation | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2005 | 376 |
| 46 | Microbiome, metabolites and host immunity | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2017 | 376 |
| 47 | Reactive oxygen species and the bacterial response to lethal stress | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2014 | 374 |
| 48 | Role of reactive oxygen species in antibiotic action and resistance | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2009 | 371 |
| 49 | The bacterial universal stress protein: function and regulation | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2003 | 369 |
| 50 | Crying out for help with root exudates: adaptive mechanisms by which stressed plants assemble health-promoting soil microbiomes | Current Opinion in Microbiology | 2019 | 366 |