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1 | Comprehensive Molecular Testing for Respiratory Pathogens in Community-Acquired Pneumonia | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2016 | 322 |
2 | Association between viral seasonality and meteorological factors | Scientific Reports | 2019 | 143 |
3 | Eurogin roadmap 2017: Triage strategies for the management of HPV‐positive women in cervical screening programs | International Journal of Cancer | 2018 | 124 |
4 | Comparison of the Luminex Respiratory Virus Panel Fast Assay with In-House Real-Time PCR for Respiratory Viral Infection Diagnosis | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2010 | 114 |
5 | Predicting the public health benefit of vaccinating cattle against Escherichia coli O157 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 106 |
6 | Applying phylogenomics to understand the emergence of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains causing severe human disease in the UK | Microbial Genomics | 2015 | 105 |
7 | Development of two real-time multiplex PCR assays for the detection and quantification of eight key bacterial pathogens in lower respiratory tract infections | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2015 | 90 |
8 | Opportunistic genomic screening. Recommendations of the European Society of Human Genetics | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2021 | 76 |
9 | A pilot, open labelled, randomised controlled trial of hypertonic saline nasal irrigation and gargling for the common cold | Scientific Reports | 2019 | 74 |
10 | VALHUDES: A protocol for validation of human papillomavirus assays and collection devices for HPV testing on self-samples and urine samples | Journal of Clinical Virology | 2018 | 72 |
11 | Performance of Human Papillomavirus DNA and mRNA Testing Strategies for Women with and without Cervical Neoplasia | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2009 | 64 |
12 | Lysogeny with Shiga Toxin 2-Encoding Bacteriophages Represses Type III Secretion in Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli | PLoS Pathogens | 2012 | 57 |
13 | Antiviral innate immune response in non-myeloid cells is augmented by chloride ions via an increase in intracellular hypochlorous acid levels | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 57 |
14 | Comparison of Unyvero P55 Pneumonia Cartridge, in-house PCR and culture for the identification of respiratory pathogens and antibiotic resistance in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids in the critical care setting | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 2019 | 52 |
15 | Increasing Clinical Presence of Mobile Communication Technology: Avoiding the Pitfalls | Telemedicine Journal and E-Health | 2011 | 46 |
16 | Perspective and priorities for improvement of parathyroid hormone (PTH) measurement – A view from the IFCC Working Group for PTH | Clinica Chimica Acta | 2017 | 46 |
17 | Hypertonic saline nasal irrigation and gargling should be considered as a treatment option for COVID-19 | Journal of Global Health | 2020 | 43 |
18 | Label- and amplification-free electrochemical detection of bacterial ribosomal RNA | Biosensors and Bioelectronics | 2016 | 42 |
19 | Rapid Electrochemical Detection of New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase Genes To Enable Point-of-Care Testing of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae | Analytical Chemistry | 2015 | 39 |
20 | Evolution of the hepatitis E virus hypervariable region | Journal of General Virology | 2012 | 36 |
21 | Gene flow in environmental Legionella pneumophila leads to genetic and pathogenic heterogeneity within a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak | Genome Biology | 2014 | 36 |
22 | Making the Most of Pathological Specimens: Molecular Diagnosis in Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin Embedded Tissue | Current Drug Targets | 2012 | 35 |
23 | Public awareness of human papillomavirus | Journal of Medical Screening | 2006 | 32 |
24 | Clinical outcomes and macrolide resistance in Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Scotland, UK | Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2013 | 32 |
25 | A large Great Britain-wide outbreak of STEC O157 phage type 8 linked to handling of raw leeks and potatoes | Epidemiology and Infection | 2016 | 31 |
26 | Estimation of HPV prevalence in young women in Scotland; monitoring of future vaccine impact | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2013 | 25 |
27 | Evaluation of the GenoType Mycobacteria Direct assay for the simultaneous detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and four atypical mycobacterial species in smear-positive respiratory specimens | Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2008 | 24 |
28 | Rash and arthralgia caused by hepatitis E | Lancet, The | 2013 | 24 |
29 | Increased reports of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from laboratories in Scotland in 2010 and 2011 – impact of the epidemic in infants | Eurosurveillance | 2012 | 24 |
30 | Rapid in situ chondrocyte death induced by Staphylococcus aureus toxins in a bovine cartilage explant model of septic arthritis | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage | 2013 | 23 |
31 | The Microbial Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: from Classical Bacteriology to Host Transcriptional Signatures | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2022 | 22 |
32 | Postexposure Prophylaxis With rVSV-ZEBOV Following Exposure to a Patient With Ebola Virus Disease Relapse in the United Kingdom: An Operational, Safety, and Immunogenicity Report | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2020 | 17 |
33 | One byte at a time: evidencing the quality of clinical service next-generation sequencing for germline and somatic variants | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2020 | 14 |
34 | Increased reports of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from laboratories in Scotland in 2010 and 2011 - impact of the epidemic in infants | Eurosurveillance | 2012 | 14 |
35 | Efficient national surveillance for health-care-associated infections | BMC Public Health | 2015 | 13 |
36 | A prospective surveillance study to determine the prevalence of 16S rRNA methyltransferase-producing Gram-negative bacteria in the UK | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2021 | 12 |
37 | Longitudinal measurement of HPV copy number in cell-free DNA is associated with patient outcomes in HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer | European Journal of Surgical Oncology | 2022 | 12 |
38 | High-Risk HPV Genotyping in the Follow-Up of Women Treated Conservatively for Microinvasive Cervical Cancer | International Journal of Gynecological Cancer | 2010 | 11 |
39 | Copy number gain of 11q13.3 genes associates with pathological stage in hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma | Genes Chromosomes and Cancer | 2017 | 10 |
40 | Antibiotic Treatment Regimes as a Driver of the Global Population Dynamics of a Major Gonorrhea Lineage | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2021 | 10 |
41 | The diversity of the opa gene in gonococcal isolates from men who have sex with men | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 9 |
42 | Comparison of two in-house real-time PCR assays with MTB Q-PCR Alert and GenoType MTBDRplus for the rapid detection of mycobacteria in clinical specimens | Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2012 | 9 |
43 | Clinical validation of full genotyping CLART® HPV4S assay on SurePath and ThinPrep collected screening samples according to the international guidelines for human papillomavirus test requirements for cervical screening | BMC Cancer | 2020 | 9 |
44 | Prevalence and Epidemiology of Non-O157 Escherichia coli Serogroups O26, O103, O111, and O145 and Shiga Toxin Gene Carriage in Scottish Cattle, 2014–2015 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2021 | 9 |
45 | Genome structural variation in Escherichia coli O157:H7 | Microbial Genomics | 2021 | 9 |
46 | Do We Know What Is in Our Samples? | Journal of Thoracic Oncology | 2015 | 8 |
47 | Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae-associated early pregnancy loss: an emerging neonatal and maternal pathogen | Infection | 2020 | 8 |
48 | External Quality Assessment Schemes for Biomarker Testing in Oncology | Journal of Molecular Diagnostics | 2020 | 7 |
49 | Autochthonous hepatitis E in Scotland | Journal of Clinical Virology | 2013 | 6 |
50 | Resolving the heterogeneity of diaphragmatic mesenchyme: a novel mouse model of congenital diaphragmatic hernia | DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms | 2021 | 6 |