| Rank |
Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
|
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa.
|
Lancet
|
2006
|
21.60
|
|
2
|
Effect of age, polymicrobial disease, and maternal HIV status on treatment response and cause of severe pneumonia in South African children: a prospective descriptive study.
|
Lancet
|
2007
|
4.98
|
|
3
|
Evolution of the extensively drug-resistant F15/LAM4/KZN strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2007
|
3.74
|
|
4
|
Genome analysis of multi- and extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
|
PLoS One
|
2009
|
3.68
|
|
5
|
Exogenous reinfection as a cause of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in rural South Africa.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2008
|
3.33
|
|
6
|
Symptomatic vaginal discharge is a poor predictor of sexually transmitted infections and genital tract inflammation in high-risk women in South Africa.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2012
|
2.42
|
|
7
|
Trichomonas vaginalis is associated with pelvic inflammatory disease in women infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2002
|
2.14
|
|
8
|
Interrelationships among human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection, bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis, and the presence of yeasts.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2001
|
2.13
|
|
9
|
Lack of association between the nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in HIV-1-infected South African children.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2006
|
2.10
|
|
10
|
Effectiveness of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis on mortality in adults with tuberculosis in rural South Africa.
|
AIDS
|
2005
|
1.88
|
|
11
|
Averting epidemics of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
|
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
|
2009
|
1.76
|
|
12
|
Nosocomial transmission of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a rural hospital in South Africa.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2012
|
1.65
|
|
13
|
Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a South African child in a tuberculosis treatment facility.
|
Pediatr Infect Dis J
|
2003
|
1.44
|
|
14
|
Association between HIV-1 infection, the etiology of genital ulcer disease, and response to syndromic management.
|
Sex Transm Dis
|
2003
|
1.36
|
|
15
|
Association between HIV and subpreputial penile wetness in uncircumcised men in South Africa.
|
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
|
2006
|
1.36
|
|
16
|
Increasing drug resistance in extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, South Africa.
|
Emerg Infect Dis
|
2011
|
1.35
|
|
17
|
Spread of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
|
PLoS One
|
2011
|
1.30
|
|
18
|
Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance by the microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility assay.
|
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
|
2011
|
1.20
|
|
19
|
φ(2)GFP10, a high-intensity fluorophage, enables detection and rapid drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum samples.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2012
|
1.13
|
|
20
|
Evaluation of time to detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in broth culture as a determinant for end points in treatment trials.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2010
|
1.11
|
|
21
|
Molecular diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum in patients with genital ulcer disease.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2005
|
1.06
|
|
22
|
Molecular epidemiology of recently emergent ciprofloxacin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in South Africa.
|
Sex Transm Dis
|
2006
|
0.99
|
|
23
|
Minimal diversity of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, South Africa.
|
Emerg Infect Dis
|
2014
|
0.97
|
|
24
|
Influence of HIV-1 coinfection on effective management of abnormal vaginal discharge.
|
Sex Transm Dis
|
2003
|
0.92
|
|
25
|
Ciprofloxacin-resistant gonorrhoea in South Africa.
|
Lancet
|
2005
|
0.92
|
|
26
|
Pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazole-based agents active against tuberculosis (TB), multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB.
|
ChemMedChem
|
2011
|
0.90
|
|
27
|
Adhesion to and invasion of pulmonary epithelial cells by the F15/LAM4/KZN and Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
|
J Med Microbiol
|
2010
|
0.90
|
|
28
|
Probable mother to infant transmission of Pneumocystis jiroveci from an HIV-infected woman to her HIV-uninfected infant.
|
AIDS
|
2005
|
0.88
|
|
29
|
Genotyping Trichomonas vaginalis.
|
Int J Parasitol
|
2006
|
0.84
|
|
30
|
Intravenous glucose preparation as the source of an outbreak of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in the neonatal unit of a regional hospital in KwaZulu-Natal.
|
S Afr Med J
|
2005
|
0.81
|
|
31
|
Vaginal tampons as specimen collection device for the molecular diagnosis of non-ulcerative sexually transmitted infections in antenatal clinic attendees.
|
Int J STD AIDS
|
2004
|
0.80
|
|
32
|
Evidence for a clonally different origin of the two cholera epidemics of 2001-2002 and 1980-1987 in South Africa.
|
J Med Microbiol
|
2007
|
0.80
|
|
33
|
Expression of the naphthoate synthase gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a self-generated oxygen depleted liquid culture system.
|
Anaerobe
|
2010
|
0.79
|
|
34
|
Typing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae reveals rapid reinfection in rural South Africa.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2002
|
0.79
|
|
35
|
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates grown under oxygen deprivation invade pulmonary epithelial cells.
|
Anaerobe
|
2012
|
0.78
|
|
36
|
Differences in Chlamydia trachomatis growth rates in human keratinocytes among lymphogranuloma venereum reference strains and clinical isolates.
|
J Med Microbiol
|
2011
|
0.76
|
|
37
|
Einstein Contained Aerosol Pulmonizer (ECAP): Improved Biosafety for Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis Aerosol Infection Studies.
|
Appl Biosaf
|
2011
|
0.75
|
|
38
|
Lower dose of ciprofloxacin is adequate for the treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
|
Int J Antimicrob Agents
|
2002
|
0.75
|