| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Gonorrhoea | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2019 | 284 |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | The novel 2016 WHONeisseria gonorrhoeaereference strains for global quality assurance of laboratory investigations: phenotypic, genetic and reference genome characterization | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2016 | 246 |
| 4 | 2015 European guideline on the management of Chlamydia trachomatis infections | International Journal of STD and AIDS | 2016 | 239 |
| 5 | World Health Organization Global Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (WHO GASP): review of new data and evidence to inform international collaborative actions and research efforts | Sexual Health | 2019 | 177 |
| 6 | Antimicrobial-resistant sexually transmitted infections: gonorrhoea and Mycoplasma genitalium | Nature Reviews Urology | 2017 | 167 |
| 7 | Prevalence of mutations associated with resistance to macrolides and fluoroquinolones in Mycoplasma genitalium: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2020 | 154 |
| 8 | Should we be testing for urogenital Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma parvum and Ureaplasma urealyticum in men and women? – a position statement from the European STI Guidelines Editorial Board | Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology | 2018 | 148 |
| 9 | Genomic Epidemiology and Molecular Resistance Mechanisms of Azithromycin-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Canada from 1997 to 2014 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2016 | 124 |
| 10 | WHO global antimicrobial resistance surveillance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae 2017–18: a retrospective observational study | Lancet Microbe, The | 2021 | 112 |
| 11 | Bloodstream infections – Standard and progress in pathogen diagnostics | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2020 | 102 |
| 12 | An international invasive meningococcal disease outbreak due to a novel and rapidly expanding serogroup W strain, Scotland and Sweden, July to August 2015 | Eurosurveillance | 2016 | 98 |
| 13 | The impact of antimicrobials on gonococcal evolution | Nature Microbiology | 2019 | 91 |
| 14 | The resurgence of syphilis in high-income countries in the 2000s: a focus on Europe | Epidemiology and Infection | 2019 | 88 |
| 15 | Diagnosing sexually transmitted infections in resource‐constrained settings: challenges and ways forward | Journal of the International AIDS Society | 2019 | 85 |
| 16 | Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection with ceftriaxone resistance and intermediate resistance to azithromycin, Denmark, 2017 | Eurosurveillance | 2017 | 83 |
| 17 | EUCAST rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (RAST) in blood cultures: validation in 55 European laboratories | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2020 | 82 |
| 18 | Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolate, belonging to the internationally spreading Japanese FC428 clone, with ceftriaxone resistance and intermediate resistance to azithromycin, Ireland, August 2018 | Eurosurveillance | 2018 | 80 |
| 19 | 2021 European guideline on the management of Mycoplasma genitalium infections | Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology | 2022 | 75 |
| 20 | Clinical and analytical evaluation of the new Aptima Mycoplasma genitalium assay, with data on M. genitalium prevalence and antimicrobial resistance in M. genitalium in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 2016 | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2018 | 74 |
| 21 | Guidance document for prevention of Clostridium difficile infection in acute healthcare settings | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2018 | 72 |
| 22 | Presence of hyaluronan in lung alveoli in severe Covid-19: An opening for new treatment options? | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2020 | 71 |
| 23 | Emergence and evolution of internationally disseminated cephalosporin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae clones from 1995 to 2005 in Japan | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2015 | 63 |
| 24 | Frequency and typing of Propionibacterium acnes in prostate tissue obtained from men with and without prostate cancer | Infectious Agents and Cancer | 2016 | 63 |
| 25 | A community-driven resource for genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance prediction of Neisseria gonorrhoeae at Pathogenwatch | Genome Medicine | 2021 | 63 |
| 26 | Antimicrobial resistance prediction and phylogenetic analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates using the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 59 |
| 27 | Increase of invasive meningococcal serogroup W disease in Europe, 2013 to 2017 | Eurosurveillance | 2019 | 59 |
| 28 | Long-term follow-up of HIV-2-related AIDS and mortality in Guinea-Bissau: a prospective open cohort study | Lancet HIV,the | 2019 | 57 |
| 29 | Genomic evolution of Neisseria gonorrhoeae since the preantibiotic era (1928–2013): antimicrobial use/misuse selects for resistance and drives evolution | BMC Genomics | 2020 | 57 |
| 30 | Pharmacokinetic considerations regarding the treatment of bacterial sexually transmitted infections with azithromycin: a review | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2019 | 56 |
| 31 | Effects of Long-Term Storage on the Detection of Proteins, DNA, and mRNA in Tissue Microarray Slides | Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry | 2011 | 52 |
| 32 | In Vivo -Selected Compensatory Mutations Restore the Fitness Cost of Mosaic penA Alleles That Confer Ceftriaxone Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae | MBio | 2018 | 51 |
| 33 | In vitro activity of the novel triazaacenaphthylene gepotidacin (GSK2140944) against MDR Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2018 | 50 |
| 34 | Clonal expansion and spread of the ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain FC428, identified in Japan in 2015, and closely related isolates | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2019 | 50 |
| 35 | Metabolites in Blood for Prediction of Bacteremic Sepsis in the Emergency Room | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 48 |
| 36 | In Vitro Activity of the Novel Pleuromutilin Lefamulin (BC-3781) and Effect of Efflux Pump Inactivation on Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2017 | 48 |
| 37 | Sampling for Chlamydia trachomatis infection – a comparison of vaginal, first-catch urine, combined vaginal and first-catch urine and endocervical sampling | International Journal of STD and AIDS | 2010 | 47 |
| 38 | First nationwide study regarding ceftriaxone resistance and molecular epidemiology ofNeisseria gonorrhoeaein China | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2016 | 47 |
| 39 | Evaluation of the new AmpliSens multiplex real‐time PCR assay for simultaneous detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Trichomonas vaginalis | Apmis | 2015 | 46 |
| 40 | WHO laboratory validation of Xpert® CT/NG and Xpert® TV on the GeneXpert system verifies high performances | Apmis | 2018 | 45 |
| 41 | Is the tide turning again for cephalosporin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Europe? Results from the 2013 European surveillance | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2015 | 44 |
| 42 | Findings of multiple HPV genotypes in cervical carcinoma are associated with poor cancer-specific survival in a Swedish cohort of cervical cancer primarily treated with radiotherapy | Oncotarget | 2018 | 44 |
| 43 | Europe-wide expansion and eradication of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages: a genomic surveillance study | Lancet Microbe, The | 2022 | 44 |
| 44 | High In Vitro Susceptibility to the Novel Spiropyrimidinetrione ETX0914 (AZD0914) among 873 Contemporary Clinical Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates from 21 European Countries from 2012 to 2014 | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2015 | 42 |
| 45 | Digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) for the detection and quantification of HPV 16, 18, 33 and 45 - a short report | Cellular Oncology (Dordrecht) | 2017 | 41 |
| 46 | Prevalence of macrolide and fluoroquinolone resistance-mediating mutations in Mycoplasma genitalium in five cities in Russia and Estonia | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 39 |
| 47 | First nationwide antimicrobial susceptibility surveillance for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Brazil, 2015–16 | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2018 | 39 |
| 48 | Breast cancer in Ethiopia: evidence for geographic difference in the distribution of molecular subtypes in Africa | BMC Women's Health | 2018 | 39 |
| 49 | Call to action for health systems integration of point-of-care testing to mitigate the transmission and burden of sexually transmitted infections | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2020 | 39 |
| 50 | Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and reproductive health service use and unmet need in Britain: findings from a quasi-representative survey (Natsal-COVID) | Lancet Public Health, The | 2022 | 39 |
