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D-Index
89
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25629
World Ranking
732
National Ranking
44

Overview

Ad C. Fluit is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has produced scholarly work primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their research focus is distributed across key subfields including Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their published works have addressed several main topics, notably Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Gut microbiota and health, Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials.

Fluit's frequent coauthors include:

  • Miquel B. Ekkelenkamp (10 collaborations)
  • María Diez-Aguilar (9 collaborations)
  • Rafael Cantón (9 collaborations)
  • Michael M. Tunney (8 collaborations)
  • Malbert R. C. Rogers (6 collaborations)

Their work has appeared repeatedly in several scientific journals and repositories, with multiple publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Acta Biomaterialia.

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Fluit include:

  • Characterization of clinical Ralstonia strains and their taxonomic position, 2021, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Biofunctionalization of selective laser melted porous titanium using silver and zinc nanoparticles to prevent infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, 2020, Acta Biomaterialia
  • Accumulation of defense systems in phage-resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2024, Science Advances
  • Behçet's Disease Under Microbiotic Surveillance? A Combined Analysis of Two Cohorts of Behçet's Disease Patients, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Functionality-packed additively manufactured porous titanium implants, 2020, Materials Today Bio

Best Publications

  • Dutch patients, retail chicken meat and poultry share the same ESBL genes, plasmids and strains.

    M. A. Leverstein-van Hall;C. M. Dierikx;J. Cohen Stuart;G. M. Voets

  • International surveillance of bloodstream infections due to Candida species: frequency of occurrence and in vitro susceptibilities to fluconazole, ravuconazole, and voriconazole of isolates collected from 1997 through 1999 in the SENTRY antimicrobial surveillance program.

    M. A. Pfaller;D. J. Diekema;R. N. Jones;H. S. Sader

  • Molecular Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance

    Ad C. Fluit;Maarten R. Visser;Franz-Josef Schmitz

  • Worldwide Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis in the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, 1997–1999

    D. J. Hoban;G. V. Doern;A. C. Fluit;M. Roussel-Delvallez

  • Class 1 integrons, gene cassettes, mobility, and epidemiology.

    A C Fluit;F J Schmitz

  • Resistance integrons and super-integrons.

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  • Antimicrobial susceptibility and frequency of occurrence of clinical blood isolates in Europe from the SENTRY antimicrobial surveillance program, 1997 and 1998.

    Ad C. Fluit;Mark E. Jones;Franz-Josef Schmitz;Jacques Acar

  • Epidemiology and Susceptibility of 3,051 Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from 25 University Hospitals Participating in the European SENTRY Study

    A. C. Fluit;C. L. C. Wielders;J. Verhoef;F.-J. Schmitz;F.-J. Schmitz

  • Dissemination of Cephalosporin Resistance Genes between Escherichia coli Strains from Farm Animals and Humans by Specific Plasmid Lineages

    Mark de Been;Val F. Lanza;María de Toro;Jelle Scharringa

  • Multidrug Resistance among Enterobacteriaceae Is Strongly Associated with the Presence of Integrons and Is Independent of Species or Isolate Origin

    Maurine A. Leverstein-van Hall;Hetty E. M. Blok;A. Rogier T. Donders;Armand Paauw

  • International surveillance of blood stream infections due to Candida species in the European SENTRY program: species distribution and antifungal susceptibility including the investigational triazole and echinocandin agents

    M.A Pfaller;R.N Jones;G.V Doern;A.C Fluit

  • Multicenter evaluation of arbitrarily primed PCR for typing of Staphylococcus aureus strains.

    A van Belkum;J Kluytmans;W van Leeuwen;R Bax

  • The magnetic immuno polymerase chain reaction assay for direct detection of salmonellae in fecal samples.

    M. N. Widjojoatmodjo;A. C. Fluit;R. Torensma;G. P. H. T. Verdonk

  • Comparison of Genotypic and Phenotypic Methods for Species-Level Identification of Clinical Isolates of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci

    E. Heikens;A. Fleer;A. Paauw;A. Florijn

  • Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains between different kinds of pig farms.

    E. van Duijkeren;R. Ikawaty;M.J. Broekhuizen-Stins;M.D. Jansen

  • Livestock‐associated Staphylococcus aureus

    A.C. Fluit

  • The prevalence of aminoglycoside resistance and corresponding resistance genes in clinical isolates of staphylococci from 19 European hospitals.

    Franz-Josef Schmitz;Ad C. Fluit;Mechthild Gondolf;Ralf Beyrau

  • Prevalence of macrolide-resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecium isolates from 24 European university hospitals.

    Franz-Josef Schmitz;Ralf Sadurski;Angela Kray;Mechthild Boos

  • Human-to-Dog Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Engeline van Duijkeren;Maurice J.H.M. Wolfhagen;Adrienne T.A. Box;Max E.O.C. Heck

  • Whole genome analysis of a livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 isolate from a case of human endocarditis.

    Maarten J Schijffelen;C H Edwin Boel;Jos A G van Strijp;Ad C Fluit

  • Distribution of the antiseptic resistance genes qacA, qacB and qacC in 497 methicillin-resistant and -susceptible European isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

    Susanne Mayer;Mechthild Boos;Andreas Beyer;Ad C. Fluit

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Verhoef
Jan Verhoef Utrecht University
Marc J. M. Bonten
Marc J. M. Bonten Utrecht University
Jaap A. Wagenaar
Jaap A. Wagenaar Utrecht University
Mark E. Jones
Mark E. Jones Basilea Pharmaceutica (Switzerland)
Harrie Weinans
Harrie Weinans Utrecht University
Engeline van Duijkeren
Engeline van Duijkeren National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Rob J. L. Willems
Rob J. L. Willems Utrecht University
Dik Mevius
Dik Mevius Utrecht University
Ruurd Torensma
Ruurd Torensma Radboud University
Sylvain Brisse
Sylvain Brisse Institut Pasteur

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