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Netherlands
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
  • Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)

Overview

Jacques F. Meis is affiliated with the Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, focusing primarily on infectious diseases and mycology. Their research spans multiple interconnected disciplines including epidemiology, cell biology, and plant science.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas, with particular emphasis on antifungal resistance and susceptibility, fungal infections and studies, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, infectious diseases and mycology, nail diseases and treatments, and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment. Additionally, their work touches on antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus species.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Defining and managing COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis: the 2020 ECMM/ISHAM consensus criteria for research and clinical guidance, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare mould infections: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology and the American Society for Microbiology, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis, March-August 2020, 2021, Emerging infectious diseases
  • Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex, 2020, Phytopathology
  • ECMM/ISHAM recommendations for clinical management of COVID-19 associated mucormycosis in low- and middle-income countries, 2021, Mycoses

Jacques F. Meis frequently collaborates with several other researchers across many publications. Notable coauthors include Bram Spruijtenburg, Theun de Groot, Eelco F. J. Meijer, Anuradha Chowdhary, and Oliver A. Cornely, reflecting a range of joint efforts in the mycology and infectious diseases research communities.

The scientist's work is published predominantly in specialized journals with a focus on medical mycology and fungal infections. The most frequent publication venues are Mycoses, Journal of Fungi, Medical Mycology, Mycopathologia, and Microbiology Spectrum.

Jacques F. Meis has received recognition within the field, including being awarded the title of Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM).

Best Publications

  • Defining Opportunistic Invasive Fungal Infections in Immunocompromised Patients with Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants: An International Consensus

    S. Ascioglu;J. H. Rex;B. De Pauw;J. E. Bennett

  • Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    J. Peter Donnelly;Sharon C. Chen;Carol A. Kauffman;William J. Steinbach

  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    Oliver A. Cornely;Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo;Dorothee Arenz;Sharon C. A. Chen

  • Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses

    Shawn R. Lockhart;Kizee A. Etienne;Snigdha Vallabhaneni;Joveria Farooqi

  • Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline

    A. J. Ullmann;J. M. Aguado;S. Arikan-Akdagli;D. W. Denning

  • Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: review of literature and proposal of new diagnostic and classification criteria

    R. Agarwal;A Chakrabarti;A. Shah;D. Gupta

  • Defining and managing COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis: the 2020 ECMM/ISHAM consensus criteria for research and clinical guidance.

    Philipp Koehler;Matteo Bassetti;Arunaloke Chakrabarti;Sharon C.A. Chen;Sharon C.A. Chen

  • Zygomycosis in Europe: analysis of 230 cases accrued by the registry of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Working Group on Zygomycosis between 2005 and 2007

    A. Skiada;L. Pagano;A. Groll;S. Zimmerli

  • First hospital outbreak of the globally emerging Candida auris in a European hospital

    Silke Schelenz;Ferry Hagen;Johanna L. Rhodes;Alireza Abdolrasouli

  • ESCMID† and ECMM‡ joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis 2013

    O.A. Cornely;S. Arikan-Akdagli;E. Dannaoui;A.H. Groll

  • Candida auris: A rapidly emerging cause of hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant fungal infections globally.

    Anuradha Chowdhary;Cheshta Sharma;Jacques F. Meis

  • Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris Misidentified as Candida haemulonii: Characterization by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry and DNA Sequencing and Its Antifungal Susceptibility Profile Variability by Vitek 2, CLSI Broth Microdilution, and Etest Method

    Shallu Kathuria;Pradeep K. Singh;Cheshta Sharma;Anupam Prakash

  • A multicentre study of antifungal susceptibility patterns among 350 Candida auris isolates (2009-17) in India: role of the ERG11 and FKS1 genes in azole and echinocandin resistance.

    Anuradha Chowdhary;Anupam Prakash;Cheshta Sharma;Milena Kordalewska

  • Azole Resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus: Can We Retain the Clinical Use of Mold-Active Antifungal Azoles?

    Paul E. Verweij;Anuradha Chowdhary;Willem J. G. Melchers;Jacques F. Meis

  • ESCMID and ECMM joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of rare invasive yeast infections

    M.C. Arendrup;T. Boekhout;T. Boekhout;T. Boekhout;M. Akova;J.F. Meis

  • New clonal strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India

    Anuradha Chowdhary;Cheshta Sharma;Shalini Duggal;Kshitij Agarwal

  • ESCMID and ECMM joint guidelines on diagnosis and management of hyalohyphomycosis: Fusarium spp., Scedosporium spp. and others

    A.M. Tortorano;M. Richardson;E. Roilides;A. van Diepeningen

  • First report of Candida auris in America: Clinical and microbiological aspects of 18 episodes of candidemia

    Belinda Calvo;Analy Salles de Azevedo Melo;Armindo Perozo-Mena;Martin Hernandez

  • A primer on cytokines: sources, receptors, effects, and inducers.

    J.H.A.J. Curfs;J.F.G.M. Meis;J.A.A. Hoogkamp-Korstanje

  • Emergence of Azole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus Strains due to Agricultural Azole Use Creates an Increasing Threat to Human Health

    Anuradha Chowdhary;Shallu Kathuria;Jianping Xu;Jacques F. Meis

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul E. Verweij
Paul E. Verweij Radboud University
Ferry Hagen
Ferry Hagen Utrecht University
Anuradha Chowdhary
Anuradha Chowdhary University of Delhi
Hamid Badali
Hamid Badali The University of Texas at San Antonio
Willem J. G. Melchers
Willem J. G. Melchers Radboud University
Johan W. Mouton
Johan W. Mouton Radboud University Medical Center
Andreas Voss
Andreas Voss Heidelberg University
Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout University of Amsterdam
Arunaloke Chakrabarti
Arunaloke Chakrabarti Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

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