Everything about Congo

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CongoA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern Democratic Republic of the CongoInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Poisonwood BibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Use of Congo red-polysaccharide interactions in enumeration and characterization of cellulolytic bacteria from the bovine rumenCited 1,399 times
5. Go sideways: CongoleseA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: KongoA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Use of Congo red-polysaccharide interactions in enumeration and characterization of cellulolytic bacteria from the bovine rumen

  R M Teather, P J Wood · 1982 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1,399 citations

• Photocatalytic degradation of various types of dyes (Alizarin S, Crocein Orange G, Methyl Red, Congo Red, Methylene Blue) in water by UV-irradiated titania

  Hinda Lachheb, Eric Puzenat, Ammar Houas · 2002 · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental · 1,395 citations

• Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

  K. O. Winemiller, P. B. McIntyre, L. Castello · 2016 · Science · 1,372 citations

• Removal of Congo Red from water by adsorption onto activated carbon prepared from coir pith, an agricultural solid waste

  C. Namasivayam, D. Kavitha · 2002 · Dyes and Pigments · 1,223 citations

• Beta-amyloid neurotoxicity requires fibril formation and is inhibited by congo red.

  A Lorenzo, B A Yankner · 1994 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,100 citations

• ON THE BINDING OF CONGO RED BY AMYLOID

  HOLDE PUCHTLER, FAYE SWEAT, M. LEVINE · 1962 · Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry · 938 citations

• Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

  Önder Ergönül · 2006 · The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 926 citations

• Kinetic study and equilibrium isotherm analysis of Congo Red adsorption by clay materials

  Vipasiri Vimonses, Shaomin Lei, Bo Jin · 2009 · Chemical Engineering Journal · 899 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

  Emmanuel Hasivirwe Vakaniaki, Cris Kacita, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki · 2024 · Nature Medicine · 392 citations

• Recent advances in removal of Congo Red dye by adsorption using an industrial waste

  Maria Harja, Gabriela Buema, Daniel Bucur · 2022 · Scientific Reports · 355 citations

• Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever virus

  David W. Hawman, Heinz Feldmann · 2023 · Nature Reviews Microbiology · 316 citations

• Investigation of Congo Red Toxicity towards Different Living Organisms: A Review

  Sharf Ilahi Siddiqui, Esam S. Allehyani, Sami A. Al-Harbi · 2023 · Processes · 307 citations

• Congo red dye removal from aqueous environment by cationic surfactant modified-biomass derived carbon: Equilibrium, kinetic, and thermodynamic modeling, and forecasting via artificial neural network approach

  Ceren Karaman, Onur Karaman, Pau-Loke Show · 2022 · Chemosphere · 235 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver, Dean Robertson · 1998
• Forest PeopleColin M. Turnbull, Colin Turnbull · 1961
• Tintin au CongoHergé · 1930
• The Congo and Coasts of AfricaRichard Harding Davis · 1907
• Pasajes de la Guerra RevolucionariaChe Guevara, Aleida Guevara · 1963
• King Leopold's ghostAdam Hochschild · 1998
• Blood RiverTim Butcher, Tim Butcher · 2007
• CongoDavid van Reybrouck · 2010

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