Top Cited Infectious Diseases Articles

We wanted to highlight our top cited research from 2018 - 2020 to draw attention to the high quality, cutting edge papers in the field of Infectious Diseases.

Impact of isolation on hospitalised patients who are infectious: systematic review with meta-analysis Edward Purssell, Dinah Gould and Jane Chudleigh doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030371 Influence of trust on two different risk perceptions as an affective and cognitive dimension during Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea: serial cross-sectional surveys Won Mo Jang, Un-Na Kim, Deok Hyun Jang et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033026 HEV study protocol : design of a cluster-randomised, blinded trial to assess the safety, immunogenicity and effectiveness of the hepatitis E vaccine HEV 239 (Hecolin) in women of childbearing age in rural Bangladesh K Zaman, Susanne Dudman, Kathrine Stene-Johansen et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033702

Currently prescribed drugs in the UK that could upregulate or downregulate ACE2 in COVID-19 disease: a systematic review Hajira Dambha-Miller, Ali Albasri, Sam Hodgson et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040644 Protecting the front line: a cross-sectional survey analysis of the occupational factors contributing to healthcare workers' infection and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA Tsion Firew, Ellen D Sano, Jonathan W Lee et al Hajira Dambha-Miller, Ali Albasri, Sam Hodgson et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042752

Identifying the risk factors for catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a large cross-sectional study of six hospitals Allison S Letica-Kriegel, Hojjat Salmasian, David K Vawdrey et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022137 Incidence of hospitalisation for severe complications of influenza virus infection in Japanese patients between 2012 and 2016: a cross-sectional study using routinely collected administrative data Hiroshi Yokomichi, Mie Mochizuki, Joseph Jonathan Lee et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024687 Incidence of Lyme disease in the UK: a population-based cohort study Victoria Cairns, Christopher Wallenhorst, Stephan Rietbrock et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025916

Treatment as prevention for hepatitis C virus in Pakistan: mathematical modelling projections Houssein H Ayoub & Laith J Abu-Raddad doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026600 Retrospective review of tertiary and neurosyphilis cases in Alberta, 1973–2017 Takaaki Landry, Petra Smyczek, Ryan Cooper et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025995

Evaluating dengue burden in Africa in passive fever surveillance and seroprevalence studies: protocol of field studies of the Dengue Vaccine Initiative Jacqueline Kyungah Lim, Mabel Carabali, Jung-Seok Lee et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017673 Screening and prevention for latent tuberculosis in immunosuppressed patients at risk for tuberculosis: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines Tasnim Hasan, Eric Au, Sharon Chen et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022445 Antibiotics for uncomplicated skin abscesses: systematic review and network meta-analysis Wen Wang, Wenwen Chen, Yanmei Liu et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020991

Epidemiological and clinical features of human metapneumovirus in hospitalised paediatric patients with acute respiratory illness: a cross-sectional study in Southern China, from 2013 to 2016 Ling Zhang, Wenkuan Liu, Donglan Liu et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019308 Transmission of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae and their mobile genetic elements—identification of sources by whole genome sequencing: study protocol for an observational study in Switzerland Tanja Stadler, Dominik Meinel, Lisandra Aguilar-Bultet et al doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021823