The Highest Cited Papers in Brucellosis: Identification Using Two Databases and Review of the Papers’ Major Findings

Table 1

Most cited articles in brucellosis.

Rank	Citation count (Scopus)	Citation count (WOS)	Title	Year	Journal	First author
1	371	964	The genome sequence of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis.	2002	Proc Natl Acad Sci USA	DelVecchio VG
2	305	916	The Brucella suis genome reveals fundamental similarities between animal and plant pathogens and symbionts.	2002	Proc Natl Acad Sci USA	Paulsen IT
3	726	652	Brucellosis: an overview.	1997	Emerg Infect Dis	Corbel MJ
4	717	665	The new global map of human brucellosis.	2006	Lancet Infect Dis	Pappas G
5	189	695	Completion of the genome sequence of Brucella abortus and comparison to the highly similar genomes of Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis.	2005	J Bacteriol	Halling SM
6	637	521	Brucellosis.	2005	N Engl J Med	Pappas G
7	111	604	Whole-genome analyses of speciation events in pathogenic brucellae.	2005	Infect Immun	Chain PS
8	8	586	Revised genome sequence of Brucella suis 1330.	2011	J Bacteriol	Tae H
9	508	417	An overview of human brucellosis.	1995	Clin Infect Dis	Young EJ
10	390	309	Complications associated with Brucella melitensis infection: a study of 530 cases.	1997	Medicine	Colmenero JD
11	54	379	Genome sequence of Brucella abortus vaccine strain S19 compared to virulent strains yields candidate yields candidate virulence genes.	2008	PLoS One	Crasta OR
12	329	353	Human brucellosis.	1983	Rev Infect Dis	Young EJ
13	314	342	Biological properties of RB51; a stable rough strain of Brucella abortus.	1991	Vet Microbiol	Schurig GG
14	337	304	Human brucellosis.	2007	Lancet Infect Dis	Franco MP
15	298	328	A homologue of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB and Bordetella pertussis Ptl type IV secretion systems is essential for intracellular survival of Brucella suis.	1999	Mol Microbiol	O’Callaghan D
16	293	310	Brucella evades macrophage killing via VirB- dependent sustained interactions with the endoplasmic reticulum.	2003	J Exp Med	Celli J
17	285	292	Brucella abortus transits through the autophagic pathway and replicates in the endoplasmic reticulum of nonprofessional phagocytes.	1998	Infect Immun	Pizarro-Cerdá J
18	291	276	Differentiation of Brucella abortus bv. 1, 2, and 4, Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis, and Brucella suis bv. 1 by PCR.	1994	J Clin Microbiol	Bricker BJ
19	271	250	From the discovery of the Malta fever’s agent to the discovery of a marine mammal reservoir, brucellosis has continuously been a re-emerging zoonosis.	2005	Vet Res	Godfroid J
20	240	266	Brucella, a monospecific genus as shown by deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization.	1985	Int J Syst	Verger JM
21	- - -	266	Immunostimulatory effect of an imidothiazole in immunization of mice against infection by Brucella- abortus.	1971	Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences. Série D	Renoux G
22	56	262	Genome degradation in Brucella ovis corresponds with narrowing of its host range and tissue tropism.	2009	PLoS One	Tsolis RM
23	222	217	Brucellosis: a worldwide zoonosis.	2001	Curr Opin Microbiol	Boschiroli ML
24	204	210	Subversion of Toll-like receptor signaling by a unique family of bacterial Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domain- containing proteins.	2008	Nat Med	Cirl C
25	204	202	Detection of Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus by DNA amplification.	1992	J Trop Med Hyg	Baily GG
26	204	160	Pyogenic, tuberculous, and brucellar vertebral osteomyelitis: a descriptive and comparative study of 219 cases.	1997	Ann Rheum Dis	Colmenero JD
27	197	202	Brucellosis vaccines: past, present and future.	2002	Vet Microbiol	Schurig GG
28	202	183	Brucellosis: a re-emerging zoonosis.	2010	Vet Microbiol	Seleem MN
29	9	201	Aureomycin and chloramphenicol in brucellosis; with special reference to side effects.	1950	J Am Med Assoc	Harris HJ
30	199	174	Evaluation and selection of tandem repeat loci for a Brucella MLVA typing assay.	2006	BMC Microbiol	Le Flèche P
31	192	198	Essential role of the VirB machinery in the maturation of the Brucella abortus-containing vacuole.	2001	Cell Microbiol	Comerci DJ
32	197	157	Serologic diagnosis of human brucellosis: analysis of 214 cases by agglutination tests and review of the literature.	1991	Rev Infect Dis	Young EJ
33	196	144	Brucellar spondylitis: review of 35 cases and literature survey.	1999	Clin Infect Dis	Solera J
34	167	195	The Brucella suis virB operon is induced intracellularly in macrophages.	2002	Proc Natl Acad	Boschiroli ML
35	195	133	Neurobrucellosis: clinical and therapeutic features.	1992	Clin Infect Dis	Mclean DR
36	194	120	Clinical manifestations and complications in 1028 cases of brucellosis: a retrospective evaluation and review of the literature.	2010	Int J Infect Dis	Buzgan T
37	191	189	Virulent Brucella abortus prevents lysosome fusion and is distributed within autophagosome-like compartments.	1998	Infect Immun	Pizarro-Cerdá J
38	186	189	Brucella ceti sp. nov. and Brucella pinnipedialis sp. nov. for Brucella strains with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts.	2007	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	Foster G
39	188	153	Human brucellosis in Kuwait: a prospective study of 400 cases.	1988	Q J Med	Lulu AR
40	167	187	A homologue of an operon required for DNA transfer in Agrobacterium is required in Brucella abortus for virulence and intracellular multiplication.	2000	J Bacteriol	Sieira R
41	133	187	Antigenic S-type lipopolysaccharide of Brucella abortus 1119-3.	1984	Infect Immun	Caroff M
42	186	142	Incidence and control of brucellosis in the Near East region.	2002	Vet Microbiol	Refai M
43	184	170	Clinical categories of neurobrucellosis. A report on 19 cases.	1987	Brain	Shakir RA
44	179	141	Recognition and optimum treatment of brucellosis.	1997	Drugs	Solera J
45	174	178	A two-component regulatory system playing a critical role in plant pathogens and endosymbionts is present in Brucella abortus and controls cell invasion and virulence.	1998	Mol Microbiol	Sola-Landa A
46	171	162	Molecular host-pathogen interaction in brucellosis: current understanding and future approaches to vaccine development for mice and humans.	2003	Clin Microbiol Rev	Ko J
47	163	169	The analysis of the intramacrophagic virulome of Brucella suis deciphers the environment encountered by the pathogen inside the macrophage host cell.	2002	Proc Natl Acad; Sci USA	Kohler S
48	169	164	Brucella intracellular life: from invasion to intracellular replication.	2002	Vet Microbiol	Gorvel JP
49	65	168	T-independent responses in B cell-defective CBA/N mice to Brucella abortus and to trinitrophenyl (TNP) conjugates of Brucella abortus.	1978	Eur J Immunol	Mond JJ
50	159	167	Identification of genes required for chronic persistence of Brucella abortus in mice.	2000	Infect Immun	Hong PC
51	143	165	Brucella abortus 16S rRNA and lipid A reveal a phylogenetic relationship with members of the alpha-2 subdivision of the class Proteobacteria.	1990	J Bacteriol	Moreno E
52	154	160	Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis.	2008	Int J Syst Evol; Microbiol	Scholz HC
53	156	159	Early acidification of phagosomes containing Brucella suis is essential for intracellular survival in murine macrophages.	1999	Infect Immun	Porte F
54	159	147	Human neurobrucellosis with intracerebral granuloma caused by a marine mammal Brucella spp.	2003	Emerg Infect Dis	Sohn AH
55	146	157	Identification of Brucella spp. genes involved in intracellular trafficking.	2001	Cell Microbiol	Delrue RM
56	141	156	Temporal development of protective cell-mediated and humoral immunity in BALB/c mice infected with Brucella abortus.	1989	J Immunol	Araya LN
57	155	125	Detection of brucellae in blood cultures.	1999	J Clin Microbiol	Yagupsky P
58	141	154	In vitro Brucella suis infection prevents the programmed cell death of human monocytic cells.	2000	Infect Immun	Gross A
59	154	138	Brucellosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: epidemiology, control and impact.	2002	Vet Microbiol	McDermott JJ
60	153	130	Single-step PCR for detection of Brucella spp. From blood and milk of infected animals.	1995	J Clin Microbiol	Leal-Klevezas DS
61	150	143	Specific detection of Brucella DNA by PCR.	1995	J Clin Microbiol	Romero C
62	150	141	Diagnosis of brucellosis by serology.	2002	Vet Microbiol	Nielsen K