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Maiken Cavling Arendrup

Maiken Cavling Arendrup

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Microbiology
Denmark
2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
88
Citations
31967
World Ranking
749
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Maiken Cavling Arendrup is affiliated with Statens Serum Institut in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on infectious diseases and epidemiology.

Their research spans several interconnected fields, including:

  • Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Cell Biology
  • Small Animals
  • Plant Science

Maiken Cavling Arendrup's main research topics cover a range of areas related to fungal biology and infectious diseases, including:

  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Nail Diseases and Treatments
  • Infectious Diseases and Mycology
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes

Their frequently published venues reflect a strong presence in the mycology and antimicrobial research community, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Journal of Fungi
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Mycoses

Among Maiken Cavling Arendrup's recent scientific papers are:

  • How to interpret MICs of antifungal compounds according to the revised clinical breakpoints v. 10.0 European committee on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (EUCAST), 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • How to: perform antifungal susceptibility testing of microconidia-forming dermatophytes following the new reference EUCAST method E.Def 11.0, exemplified by Trichophyton, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Other prominent papers related to their field but authored by other researchers include:

  • Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics, 2022, Nature
  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of candidiasis: an initiative of the ECMM in cooperation with ISHAM and ASM, 2025, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • The one health problem of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus: current insights and future research agenda, 2020, Fungal Biology Reviews

Maiken Cavling Arendrup has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, indicating active engagement in research partnerships. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Joseph Meletiadis
  • Karin Meinike Jørgensen
  • Rasmus Krøger Hare
  • Jesús Guinea
  • Sevtap Arıkan-Akdağlı

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Invasive candidiasis

    Unknown

  • ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: non-neutropenic adult patients.

    O.A. Cornely;M. Bassetti;T. Calandra;J. Garbino

  • Invasive Candidiasis

    Unknown

  • Frequency and Evolution of Azole Resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus Associated with Treatment Failure

    Susan J. Howard;Dasa Cerar;Michael J. Anderson;Ahmed Albarrag

  • EUCAST definitive document EDef 7.1: method for the determination of broth dilution MICs of antifungal agents for fermentative yeasts.

    J.L. Rodriguez-Tudela;M.C. Arendrup;F. Barchiesi;J. Bille

  • 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

  • Multidrug-Resistant Candida: Epidemiology, Molecular Mechanisms, and Treatment

    Maiken Cavling Arendrup;Thomas F Patterson

  • EUCAST technical note on the EUCAST definitive document EDef 7.2: method for the determination of broth dilution minimum inhibitory concentrations of antifungal agents for yeasts EDef 7.2 (EUCAST-AFST)*

    Maiken C. Arendrup;Manuel Cuenca-Estrella;Cornelia Lass-Flörl;William Hope

  • 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

  • Epidemiology of invasive candidiasis.

    Maiken C Arendrup

  • 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

  • ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012:diagnostic procedures

    M. Cuenca-Estrella;P. E Verweij;M. C Arendrup;S. Arikan-Akdagli

  • How to Optimize the Use of Blood Cultures for the Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections? A State-of-the Art

    Brigitte Lamy;Sylvie Dargère;Maiken C. Arendrup;Jean-Jacques Parienti

  • ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: prevention and management of invasive infections in neonates and children caused by Candida spp

    W.W. Hope;E. Castagnola;A.H. Groll;E. Roilides

  • ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: adults with haematological malignancies and after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT)

    A.J. Ullmann;M. Akova;R. Herbrecht;C. Viscoli

  • Prospective multicenter international surveillance of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus.

    J W M van der Linden;M C Arendrup;A Warris;Katrien Lagrou

  • Clinical breakpoints for the echinocandins and Candida revisited: Integration of molecular, clinical, and microbiological data to arrive at species-specific interpretive criteria

    M.A. Pfaller;D.J. Diekema;D. Andes;M.C. Arendrup

  • Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics

    Unknown

  • ESCMID and ECMM joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of systemic phaeohyphomycosis: diseases caused by black fungi

    A. Chowdhary;J. F. Meis;J. Guarro;G. S. de Hoog

  • Echinocandin resistance: an emerging clinical problem?

    Maiken Cavling Arendrup;David S. Perlin

  • International expert opinion on the management of infection caused by azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus.

    Paul E. Verweij;Michelle Ananda-Rajah;David Andes;Maiken C. Arendrup

  • Management of invasive candidiasis and candidemia in adult non-neutropenic intensive care unit patients: Part I. Epidemiology and diagnosis.

    Benoît P. Guery;Maiken C. Arendrup;Georg Auzinger;Élie Azoulay

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Cuenca-Estrella
Manuel Cuenca-Estrella Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Joseph Meletiadis
Joseph Meletiadis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Paul E. Verweij
Paul E. Verweij Radboud University
William W. Hope
William W. Hope University of Liverpool
Cornelia Lass-Flörl
Cornelia Lass-Flörl Innsbruck Medical University
Helle Krogh Johansen
Helle Krogh Johansen University of Copenhagen
Oliver A. Cornely
Oliver A. Cornely University of Cologne
David W. Denning
David W. Denning University of Manchester
Emmanuel Roilides
Emmanuel Roilides Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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