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Alex van Belkum

Alex van Belkum

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Microbiology
Netherlands
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
115
Citations
53779
World Ranking
190
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Alex van Belkum is affiliated with BaseClear B.V. in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work includes a focus on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Clinical Biochemistry, and Endocrinology.

The scientist has explored several main topics in their research, including:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy

Recent publications by Alex van Belkum include:

  • Innovative and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology (co-author Olivier Vandenberg)
  • Global prevalence and distribution of vancomycin resistant, vancomycin intermediate and heterogeneously vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Scientific Reports (co-author Aref Shariati)
  • The global prevalence of Daptomycin, Tigecycline, Quinupristin/Dalfopristin, and Linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci strains: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (co-author Aref Shariati)
  • Discordant bioinformatic predictions of antimicrobial resistance from whole-genome sequencing data of bacterial isolates: an inter-laboratory study, 2020, Microbial Genomics (co-author Ronan Doyle)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alex van Belkum include:

  • Mattia Palmieri
  • Caroline Mirande
  • Andreu Coello Pelegrin
  • Ehsanollah Ghaznavi-Rad
  • Davood Darban-Sarokhalil

Prominent venues where Alex van Belkum has published multiple works are:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Research Square
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: epidemiology, underlying mechanisms, and associated risks.

    J Kluytmans;A van Belkum;H Verbrugh

  • The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections.

    Heiman F L Wertheim;Damian C Melles;Margreet C Vos;Willem van Leeuwen

  • Preventing Surgical-Site Infections in Nasal Carriers of Staphylococcus aureus

    Diana Bogaers;Robert Roosendaal;Annet Troelstra;Andreas Voss

  • Risk and outcome of nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in nasal carriers versus non-carriers.

    Heiman F L Wertheim;Margreet C Vos;Alewijn Ott;Alex van Belkum

  • Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology

    A. van Belkum;P.T. Tassios;L. Dijkshoorn;S. Haeggman

  • Short-Sequence DNA Repeats in Prokaryotic Genomes

    Alex van Belkum;Stewart Scherer;Loek van Alphen;Henri Verbrugh

  • Colonisation by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in healthy children

    D. Bogaert;A. van Belkum;M. Sluijter;A. Luijendijk

  • Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests.

    Olivier Vandenberg;Olivier Vandenberg;Delphine Martiny;Olivier Rochas;Alex van Belkum

  • New Real-Time PCR Assay for Rapid Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Directly from Specimens Containing a Mixture of Staphylococci

    A. Huletsky;R. Giroux;V. Rossbach;M. Gagnon

  • Reclassification of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage types.

    Alex van Belkum;Nelianne J. Verkaik;Corné P. de Vogel;Hélène A. Boelens

  • Prevalence and odds of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in atopic dermatitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    J.E.E. Totté;W.T. van der Feltz;M. Hennekam;A. van Belkum;A. van Belkum

  • Moraxella catarrhalis: from Emerging to Established Pathogen

    Cees M. Verduin;Cees Hol;André Fleer;Hans van Dijk

  • Surgical Site Infections in Orthopedic Surgery: The Effect of Mupirocin Nasal Ointment in a Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study

    M. D Kalmeijer;H Coertjens;P. M van Nieuwland-Bollen;D Bogaers-Hofman

  • Role of Genomic Typing in Taxonomy, Evolutionary Genetics, and Microbial Epidemiology

    Alex van Belkum;Marc Struelens;Arjan de Visser;Henri Verbrugh

  • DNA fingerprinting of medically important microorganisms by use of PCR.

    A van Belkum

  • Carriage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the Upper Respiratory Tract of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Children: An Observational Study

    Emiel B. M. Spuesens;Pieter L. A. Fraaij;Eline G. Visser;Theo Hoogenboezem

  • Follow-Up of Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Carriage after 8 Years: Redefining the Persistent Carrier State

    Marjolein F. Q. VandenBergh;Ed P. F. Yzerman;Alex van Belkum;Hélène A. M. Boelens

  • Co-evolutionary aspects of human colonisation and infection by Staphylococcus aureus.

    Alex van Belkum;Damian C Melles;Jan Nouwen;Willem B van Leeuwen

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

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

  • Innovative and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems.

    Alex van Belkum;Carey Ann D. Burnham;John W.A. Rossen;Frederic Mallard

  • Mycetoma caused by Madurella mycetomatis: a neglected infectious burden

    Abdalla O A Ahmed;Willem van Leeuwen;Ahmed Fahal;Wendy van de Sande

Frequent Co-Authors

Henri A. Verbrugh
Henri A. Verbrugh Erasmus University Rotterdam
Hubert P. Endtz
Hubert P. Endtz Erasmus University Rotterdam
Willem J. B. van Wamel
Willem J. B. van Wamel Erasmus University Rotterdam
Heiman F. L. Wertheim
Heiman F. L. Wertheim Radboud University
Michel Gilbert
Michel Gilbert National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Bart C. Jacobs
Bart C. Jacobs Erasmus University Rotterdam
W. Michael Dunne
W. Michael Dunne bioMérieux (France)
Jan Kluytmans
Jan Kluytmans Utrecht University
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe Erasmus University Rotterdam

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