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| 1 | SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor | Cell | 2020 | 16,161 |
| 2 | Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19 | Nature Neuroscience | 2021 | 991 |
| 3 | COVID-19 severity correlates with airway epithelium–immune cell interactions identified by single-cell analysis | Nature Biotechnology | 2020 | 887 |
| 4 | Hosts and Sources of Endemic Human Coronaviruses | Advances in Virus Research | 2018 | 756 |
| 5 | Nafamostat Mesylate Blocks Activation of SARS-CoV-2: New Treatment Option for COVID-19 | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2020 | 394 |
| 6 | Estimating infectiousness throughout SARS-CoV-2 infection course | Science | 2021 | 389 |
| 7 | Rapid reconstruction of SARS-CoV-2 using a synthetic genomics platform | Nature | 2020 | 377 |
| 8 | Chloroquine does not inhibit infection of human lung cells with SARS-CoV-2 | Nature | 2020 | 370 |
| 9 | A Therapeutic Non-self-reactive SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Protects from Lung Pathology in a COVID-19 Hamster Model | Cell | 2020 | 305 |
| 10 | Comparison of seven commercial SARS-CoV-2 rapid point-of-care antigen tests: a single-centre laboratory evaluation study | Lancet Microbe, The | 2021 | 274 |
| 11 | Borna disease virus genome transcribed and expressed in psychiatric patients | Nature Medicine | 1995 | 245 |
| 12 | Pre-activated antiviral innate immunity in the upper airways controls early SARS-CoV-2 infection in children | Nature Biotechnology | 2022 | 229 |
| 13 | Inhibition of SARS–CoV-2 by type I and type III interferons | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 2020 | 220 |
| 14 | Borna disease virus, a negative-strand RNA virus, transcribes in the nucleus of infected cells. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1992 | 211 |
| 15 | Virus-induced senescence is a driver and therapeutic target in COVID-19 | Nature | 2021 | 195 |
| 16 | Evidence for Novel Hepaciviruses in Rodents | PLoS Pathogens | 2013 | 187 |
| 17 | High Zika Virus Seroprevalence in Salvador, Northeastern Brazil Limits the Potential for Further Outbreaks | MBio | 2017 | 183 |
| 18 | Attenuation of replication by a 29 nucleotide deletion in SARS-coronavirus acquired during the early stages of human-to-human transmission | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 181 |
| 19 | Devilishly radical NETwork in COVID-19: Oxidative stress, neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), and T cell suppression | Advances in Biological Regulation | 2020 | 172 |
| 20 | SARS-CoV-2-mediated dysregulation of metabolism and autophagy uncovers host-targeting antivirals | Nature Communications | 2021 | 172 |
| 21 | SARS-CoV-2 in severe COVID-19 induces a TGF-β-dominated chronic immune response that does not target itself | Nature Communications | 2021 | 145 |
| 22 | Nucleocapsid mutations R203K/G204R increase the infectivity, fitness, and virulence of SARS-CoV-2 | Cell Host and Microbe | 2021 | 145 |
| 23 | Human infections with Borna disease virus: Seroprevalence in patients with chronic diseases and healthy individuals | Journal of Medical Virology | 1992 | 141 |
| 24 | Head-to-head comparison of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid test with self-collected nasal swabversusprofessional-collected nasopharyngeal swab | European Respiratory Journal | 2021 | 136 |
| 25 | Hypertension delays viral clearance and exacerbates airway hyperinflammation in patients with COVID-19 | Nature Biotechnology | 2021 | 129 |
| 26 | BORNA DISEASE VIRUS-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES IN PATIENTS WITH HIV INFECTION AND WITH MENTAL DISORDERS | Lancet, The | 1988 | 119 |
| 27 | Borna Disease Virus Infection, a Human Mental-Health Risk | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2003 | 109 |
| 28 | Provirus Variants of the Bovine Leukemia Virus and Their Relation to the Serological Status of Naturally Infected Cattle | Virology | 1997 | 95 |
| 29 | Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence | ELife | 2020 | 91 |
| 30 | Borna disease virus-specific circulating immune complexes, antigenemia, and free antibodies—the key marker triplet determining infection and prevailing in severe mood disorders | Molecular Psychiatry | 2001 | 87 |
| 31 | Biology and neurobiology of Borna disease viruses (BDV), defined by antibodies, neutralizability and their pathogenic potential | Archives of Virology Supplementum | 1993 | 83 |
| 32 | Polymorphisms in dipeptidyl peptidase 4 reduce host cell entry of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus | Emerging Microbes and Infections | 2020 | 77 |
| 33 | A SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody selected from COVID-19 patients binds to the ACE2-RBD interface and is tolerant to most known RBD mutations | Cell Reports | 2021 | 75 |
| 34 | Sequence characterization of human Borna disease virus | Virus Research | 1996 | 72 |
| 35 | Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: second update 2018 | Archives of Virology | 2019 | 70 |
| 36 | Seroprevalence and correlates of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies from a population-based study in Bonn, Germany | Nature Communications | 2021 | 70 |
| 37 | Temporal omics analysis in Syrian hamsters unravel cellular effector responses to moderate COVID-19 | Nature Communications | 2021 | 68 |
| 38 | Human coronavirus OC43 outbreak in wild chimpanzees, Côte d´Ivoire, 2016 | Emerging Microbes and Infections | 2018 | 66 |
| 39 | A novel marker for Borna disease virus infection | Lancet, The | 1994 | 65 |
| 40 | The papain-like protease determines a virulence trait that varies among members of the SARS-coronavirus species | PLoS Pathogens | 2018 | 64 |
| 41 | Epithelial response to IFN‐γ promotes SARS‐CoV‐2 infection | EMBO Molecular Medicine | 2021 | 62 |
| 42 | 2021 Taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales | Archives of Virology | 2021 | 62 |
| 43 | Isolation and characterisation of equine influenza viruses (H3N8) from Europe and North America from 2008 to 2009 | Veterinary Microbiology | 2011 | 57 |
| 44 | Development of a surveillance scheme for equine influenza in the UK and characterisation of viruses isolated in Europe, Dubai and the USA from 2010–2012 | Veterinary Microbiology | 2014 | 55 |
| 45 | Dermacentor reticulatus is a vector of tick-borne encephalitis virus | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases | 2020 | 55 |
| 46 | Genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children | Nature | 2023 | 53 |
| 47 | Clinically Diseased Cats with Non-suppurative Meningoencephalomyelitis have Borna Disease Virus-specific Antibodies | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica | 1993 | 51 |
| 48 | Diagnostic accuracy and feasibility of patient self-testing with a SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid test | Journal of Clinical Virology | 2021 | 50 |
| 49 | Human small intestinal infection by SARS-CoV-2 is characterized by a mucosal infiltration with activated CD8+ T cells | Mucosal Immunology | 2021 | 50 |
| 50 | Prevalence of equine herpesvirus type 2 (EHV-2) DNA in ocular swabs and its cell tropism in equine conjunctiva | Veterinary Microbiology | 2006 | 47 |
