| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Detection of Influenza A Viruses from Different Species by PCR Amplification of Conserved Sequences in the Matrix Gene | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2000 | 378 |
| 2 | Influenza B Virus in Seals | Science | 2000 | 316 |
| 3 | Comparison of RNA hybridization, hemagglutination assay, titration of infectious virus and immunofluorescence as methods for monitoring influenza virus replication in vitro | Journal of Virological Methods | 1998 | 194 |
| 4 | Antibody induction by influenza vaccines in the elderly: a review of the literature | Vaccine | 1989 | 177 |
| 5 | Restored humoral immune response to influenza vaccination in HIV-infected adults treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy | Aids | 1998 | 166 |
| 6 | Ten-year neonatal hepatitis B vaccination program, the Netherlands, 1982–1992: protective efficacy and long-term immunogenicity | Vaccine | 1997 | 164 |
| 7 | Seroprotection rate, mean fold increase, seroconversion rate: which parameter adequately expresses seroresponse to influenza vaccination? | Virus Research | 2004 | 164 |
| 8 | Infection of Children with Avian-Human Reassortant Influenza Virus from Pigs in Europe | Virology | 1994 | 157 |
| 9 | Impact of Influenza on Mortality in Relation to Age and Underlying Disease, 1967–1989 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1993 | 148 |
| 10 | Interferon alfa for chronic hepatitis B infection: Increased efficacy of prolonged treatment | Hepatology | 1999 | 131 |
| 11 | Protective Immunity in Macaques Vaccinated with Live Attenuated, Recombinant, and Subunit Measles Vaccines in the Presence of Passively Acquired Antibodies | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1997 | 121 |
| 12 | Inhibitory effect of 9-(2-phosphonylmethoxyethyl)adenine (PMEA) on human and duck hepatitis B virus infection | Antiviral Research | 1993 | 120 |
| 13 | Canine distemper virus from diseased large felids: biological properties and phylogenetic relationships | Journal of General Virology | 1996 | 119 |
| 14 | Risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus associated apnoea | European Journal of Pediatrics | 1998 | 117 |
| 15 | Human influenza virus A/HongKong/156/97 (H5N1) infection | Vaccine | 1998 | 115 |
| 16 | An approach to the control of disease transmission in pig-to-human xenotransplantation | Xenotransplantation | 2000 | 113 |
| 17 | Viral Replication and Development of Specific Immunity in Macaques after Infection with Different Measles Virus Strains | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 1994 | 107 |
| 18 | Inhibition of Influenza Virus Replication by Nitric Oxide | Journal of Virology | 1999 | 107 |
| 19 | Mass mortality of common eiders ( Somateria mollissima ) in the Dutch Wadden Sea, winter 1999/2000: starvation in a commercially exploited wetland of international importance | Biological Conservation | 2002 | 105 |
| 20 | The duration and magnitude of influenza epidemics: a study of surveillance data from sentinel general practices in England, Wales and the Netherlands | European Journal of Epidemiology | 1999 | 103 |
| 21 | Type-specific identification of influenza viruses A, B and C by the polymerase chain reaction | Journal of Virological Methods | 1992 | 100 |
| 22 | Influenza Virus: a Master of Metamorphosis | Journal of Infection | 2000 | 100 |
| 23 | Inhibitory effects of acyclic nucleoside phosphonates on human hepatitis B virus and duck hepatitis B virus infections in tissue culture. | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1994 | 96 |
| 24 | Global Assessment of Resistance to Neuraminidase Inhibitors, 2008–2011: The Influenza Resistance Information Study (IRIS) | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2013 | 93 |
| 25 | Mismatch between the 1997/1998 influenza vaccine and the major epidemic A(H3N2) virus strain as the cause of an inadequate vaccine-induced antibody response to this strain in the elderly | Journal of Medical Virology | 2000 | 93 |
| 26 | Efficacy of influenza vaccination in adult liver transplant recipients | | 2000 | 91 |
| 27 | Influenza Vaccines | Drugs | 1997 | 86 |
| 28 | Influenza A Virus Surveillance in Wild Birds in Northern Europe in 1999 and 2000 | Avian Diseases | 2003 | 85 |
| 29 | Antibody response after influenza immunization with various vaccine doses: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-centre, dose—response study in elderly nursing-home residents and young volunteers | Vaccine | 1993 | 84 |
| 30 | Intradermally Administered Yellow Fever Vaccine at Reduced Dose Induces a Protective Immune Response: A Randomized Controlled Non-Inferiority Trial | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 84 |
| 31 | Both immunisation with a formalin-inactivated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine and a mock antigen vaccine induce severe lung pathology and a Th2 cytokine profile in RSV-challenged mice | Vaccine | 2000 | 82 |
| 32 | Gender differences in local and systemic reactions to inactivated influenza vaccine, established by a meta-analysis of fourteen independent studies | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 1996 | 80 |
| 33 | The immunostimulating complex (ISCOM) is an efficient mucosal delivery system for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) envelope antigens inducing high local and systemic antibody responses | Clinical and Experimental Immunology | 1998 | 77 |
| 34 | Characterisation of morbilliviruses isolated from Lake Baikal seals (Phoca sibirica) | Veterinary Microbiology | 1995 | 72 |
| 35 | Antiviral effect of interferon in vivo may be mediated by the host | Nature | 1979 | 70 |
| 36 | Relative immunocompetence of the newborn harbour seal, Phoca vitulina | Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology | 1994 | 70 |
| 37 | Morbillivirus infections of aquatic mammals: newly identified members of the genus | Veterinary Microbiology | 1995 | 70 |
| 38 | Heterozygosity and lungworm burden in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) | Heredity | 2008 | 69 |
| 39 | Prospective application of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for diagnosing influenza infections in respiratory samples from a children's hospital | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1993 | 66 |
| 40 | Sequence analysis of the 5' untranslated region in isolates of at least four genotypes of hepatitis C virus in The Netherlands | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1994 | 66 |
| 41 | Analysis of hepatitis C virus genotypes by a line probe assay and correlation with antibody profiles | Journal of Hepatology | 1994 | 61 |
| 42 | ISCOM vaccine induced protection against a lethal challenge with a human H5N1 influenza virus | Vaccine | 1999 | 60 |
| 43 | Local variability in respiratory syncytial virus disease severity | Archives of Disease in Childhood | 1997 | 59 |
| 44 | SEROLOGIC SURVEY FOR SELECTED VIRUS INFECTIONS IN POLAR BEARS AT SVALBARD | Journal of Wildlife Diseases | 2005 | 55 |
| 45 | Detection of hepatitis C virus RNA in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infections during and after therapy with alpha interferon | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1993 | 54 |
| 46 | Phylogenetic evidence of canine distemper virus in Serengeti's lions | Vaccine | 1995 | 54 |
| 47 | Characterization of phocid herpesvirus-1 and -2 as putative alpha- and gammaherpesviruses of North American and European pinnipeds | Journal of General Virology | 1996 | 52 |
| 48 | Measurement of HBsAg to monitor hepatitis B viral replication in patients on α-interferon therapy | Antiviral Research | 1994 | 51 |
| 49 | Influenza vaccines: the effect of vaccine dose on antibody response in primed populations during the ongoing interpandemic period. A review of the literature | Vaccine | 1993 | 49 |
| 50 | Detection of respiratory syncytial virus by RNA-polymerase chain reaction and differentiation of subgroups with oligonucleotide probes | Journal of Medical Virology | 1994 | 49 |
