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Overview

Dick van Soolingen is affiliated with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands. The primary focus of their research lies within the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Immunology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to tuberculosis and infectious diseases. These include:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Several prominent venues have published the scientist's work. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • The 2021 WHO catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mutations associated with drug resistance: a genotypic analysis, 2022, The Lancet Microbe
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis laboratory services in Europe, 2020, European Respiratory Journal
  • Use of a whole genome sequencing-based approach for Mycobacterium tuberculosis surveillance in Europe in 2017-2019: an ECDC pilot study, 2020, European Respiratory Journal
  • Clinical standards for the dosing and management of TB drugs, 2022, The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  • GenomegaMap: Within-Species Genome-Wide dN/dS Estimation from over 10,000 Genomes, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Dick van Soolingen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Richard Anthony
  • Daniela María Cirillo
  • Stefan Niemann
  • Rina de Zwaan
  • A. Mulder

Best Publications

  • Proposal for Standardization of Optimized Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Philip Supply;Philip Supply;Caroline Allix;Sarah Lesjean;Sarah Lesjean;Mara Cardoso-Oelemann;Mara Cardoso-Oelemann

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology

    Karine Brudey;Jeffrey R Driscoll;Leen Rigouts;Wolfgang M Prodinger

  • Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a threat to global control of tuberculosis

    Neel R Gandhi;Paul Nunn;Keertan Dheda;Keertan Dheda;H Simon Schaaf

  • The geographic diversity of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from pulmonary samples: an NTM-NET collaborative study

    Wouter Hoefsloot;Jakko Van Ingen;Claire Andrejak;Kristian Ängeby

  • Automated High-Throughput Genotyping for Study of Global Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Based on Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units

    Philip Supply;Sarah Lesjean;Evgueni Savine;Kristin Kremer

  • Worldwide occurrence of Beijing/W strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review.

    Judith R. Glynn;Jennifer Whiteley;Pablo J. Bifani;Kristin Kremer

  • Increased vaccine efficacy against tuberculosis of recombinant Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guerin mutants that secrete listeriolysin

    Leander Grode;Peter Seiler;Sven Baumann;Jürgen Hess

  • Origin, Spread and Demography of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex

    Thierry Wirth;Falk Hildebrand;Caroline Allix-Béguec;Florian Wölbeling

  • The influence of host and bacterial genotype on the development of disseminated disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Maxine Caws;Maxine Caws;Guy Thwaites;Sarah Dunstan;Sarah Dunstan;Thomas R. Hawn

  • Epidemiology of antituberculosis drug resistance 2002–07: an updated analysis of the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance

    Abigail Wright;Matteo Zignol;Armand Van Deun;Armand Van Deun;Dennis Falzon

  • Insertion element IS987 from Mycobacterium bovis BCG is located in a hot-spot integration region for insertion elements in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains.

    P. W. M. Hermans;D. Van Soolingen;E. M. Bik;P. E. W. De Haas

  • ESX-1-mediated translocation to the cytosol controls virulence of mycobacteria

    Diane Houben;Caroline Demangel;Jakko Van Ingen;Jorge Perez

  • Prediction of Susceptibility to First-Line Tuberculosis Drugs by DNA Sequencing.

    Caroline Allix-Béguec;Irena Arandjelovic

  • Characterization of the Catalase-Peroxidase Gene (katG) and inhA Locus in Isoniazid-Resistant and -Susceptible Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Automated DNA Sequencing: Restricted Array of Mutations Associated with Drug Resistance

    James M. Musser;Vivek Kapur;Diana L. Williams;Barry N. Kreiswirth

  • Molecular evidence to support a proposal to reserve the designation Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium for bird-type isolates and 'M. avium subsp. hominissuis' for the human/porcine type of M. avium.

    Wouter Mijs;Petra de Haas;Rudi Rossau;Tridia Van der Laan

  • Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: current standards and open issues.

    Conor J. Meehan;Galo A. Goig;Thomas A. Kohl;Lennert Verboven

  • PCR-based method to differentiate the subspecies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex on the basis of genomic deletions

    Richard C. Huard;Luiz Claudio de Oliveira Lazzarini;W. Ray Butler;Dick van Soolingen

  • Tuberculosis Transmission by Patients with Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Large Cohort in The Netherlands

    Alma Tostmann;Sandra V. Kik;Nico A. Kalisvaart;Maruschka M. Sebek

  • Possible underlying mechanisms for successful emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains.

    Unknown

  • Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Netherlands: a nationwide study from 1993 through 1997.

    Dick van Soolingen;Martien W. Borgdorff;Petra E. W. de Haas;Maruschka M. G. G. Sebek

  • Mutations in putative mutator genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the W-Beijing family.

    Mina Ebrahimi Rad;Pablo Bifani;Carlos Martin;Kristin Kremer

  • Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Zambia

    Petronella Catharina Adriana Maria Buijtels;Marianne van der Sande;Casper de Graaff;Shelagh Parkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin Kremer
Kristin Kremer KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
Johan W. Mouton
Johan W. Mouton Radboud University Medical Center
Stefan Niemann
Stefan Niemann Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Christophe Sola
Christophe Sola University of Paris-Saclay
Leen Rigouts
Leen Rigouts Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Henri A. Verbrugh
Henri A. Verbrugh Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tawanda Gumbo
Tawanda Gumbo Baylor University Medical Center
Enrico Tortoli
Enrico Tortoli Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Philip Supply
Philip Supply Institut Pasteur
Robin M. Warren
Robin M. Warren Stellenbosch University

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