Top Cited Infectious Diseases Articles
We wanted to highlight our top cited research from 2017 – 2020 to draw attention to the high quality, cutting edge papers in the field of Infectious Diseases.
2020
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
2019
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
2018
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
2017
Risk of tuberculosis in patients treated with TNF-α antagonists: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Zheng Zhang, Wei Fan, Gui Yang et al
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012567
Ten-year follow-up of human papillomavirus vaccine efficacy against the most stringent cervical neoplasia end-point—registry-based follow-up of three cohorts from randomized trials
Matti Lehtinen, Camilla Lagheden, Tapio Luostarinen et al
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-015867
Association between rhinovirus wheezing illness and the development of childhood asthma: a meta-analysis
Lu Liu, Yilin Pan, Yanting Zhu et al
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013034
Prevention and assessment of infectious diseases among children and adult migrants arriving to the European Union/European Economic Association: a protocol for a suite of systematic reviews for public health and health systems
Kevin Pottie, Alain D Mayhew, Rachael L Morton et al
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014608
Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in Cameroon: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Jean Joel Bigna, Marie A Amougou, Serra Lem Asangbeh et al
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015298