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2022

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Microbiology

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85
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39587
World Ranking
859
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Marc Struelens is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research spans multiple domains within biomedical sciences, with a strong emphasis on the study of infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance.

Their scholarly work concentrates primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields that frequently appear in their research include Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Medicine, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Bacillus and Francisella Bacterial Research
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies

Marc Struelens has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles across respected scientific venues, including Frontiers in Public Health, Eurosurveillance, SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Science, and BMC Public Health.

Recent publications by Marc Struelens include:

  • Real-time genomic surveillance for enhanced control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, 2024, Frontiers in Science
  • Cross-border spread of blaNDM-1- and blaOXA-48-positive Klebsiella pneumoniae: a European collaborative analysis of whole genome sequencing and epidemiological data, 2014 to 2019, 2020, Eurosurveillance
  • Epidemiological situation, laboratory capacity and preparedness for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, 2019, 2020, Eurosurveillance
  • Automated digital reporting of clinical laboratory information to national public health surveillance systems, results of a EU/EEA survey, 2018, 2020, Eurosurveillance
  • Point of Care Testing for Infectious Disease in Europe: A Scoping Review and Survey Study, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Barbara Albiger, Dominique L. Monnet, Anke Kohlenberg, Erik Alm, and Daniel Palm.

Best Publications

  • Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance

    A-P Magiorakos;A Srinivasan;R B Carey;Y Carmeli

  • Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis

    Alessandro Cassini;Liselotte Diaz Högberg;Diamantis Plachouras;Annalisa Quattrocchi

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

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

  • Harmonization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for epidemiological typing of strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a single approach developed by consensus in 10 European laboratories and its application for tracing the spread of related strains.

    Stephen Murchan;Mary Elizabeth Kaufmann;Ariane Deplano;Raf de Ryck

  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Burden of disease and control challenges in Europe

    Robin Köck;Karsten Becker;B. Cookson;J. E. van Gemert-Pijnen

  • Consensus guidelines for appropriate use and evaluation of microbial epidemiologic typing systems

    M. J. Struelens

  • Antibiotic Susceptibility Among Aerobic Gram-negative Bacilli in Intensive Care Units in 5 European Countries

    H Hanberger;J A Garcia-Rodriguez;M Gobernado;H Goossens

  • Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe: assessment by national experts from 38 countries, May 2015

    Barbara Albiger;Corinna Glasner;Marc J. Struelens;Hajo Grundmann

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

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

  • Impact of Infectious Diseases Specialists and Microbiological Data on the Appropriateness of Antimicrobial Therapy for Bacteremia

    Baudouin Byl;Philippe Clevenbergh;Frédérique Jacobs;Marc J. Struelens

  • Pan-European study on culture-proven Legionnaires' disease: Distribution of Legionella pneumophila serogroups and monoclonal subgroups

    J H Helbig;S Bernander;M Castellani Pastoris;J Etienne

  • Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Ulrich Nübel;Philippe Roumagnac;Mirjam Feldkamp;Jae Hoon Song

  • The epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in hospital acquired infections: problems and possible solutions

    Marc J Struelens

  • Epidemiologic typing and delineation of genetic relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by macrorestriction analysis of genomic DNA by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.

    Marc Struelens;Ariane Deplano;Claudine Godard;Nicole Maes

  • Assessment of Resolution and Intercenter Reproducibility of Results of Genotyping Staphylococcus aureus by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis of SmaI Macrorestriction Fragments: a Multicenter Study

    Alex van Belkum;Willem van Leeuwen;Mary Elizabeth Kaufmann;Barry Cookson

  • Antimicrobial Resistance of Old and Recent Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Poultry: First Detection of Livestock-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Strain ST398

    Mostafa Nemati;Katleen Hermans;Urszula Lipinska;Olivier Denis

  • Rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in wound specimens and blood cultures: Multicenter preclinical evaluation of the cepheid Xpert MRSA/SA skin and soft tissue and blood culture assays

    Donna Wolk;Marc Struelens;Preeti Pancholi;Thomas Davis

  • Livestock-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Humans, Europe

    Brigitte A G L van Cleef;Dominique Louis Monnet;Andreas Voss;Karina K. Krziwanek

  • Evaluation of a Triplex PCR Assay To Discriminate Staphylococcus aureus from Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci and Determine Methicillin Resistance from Blood Cultures

    N. Maes;J. Magdalena;S. Rottiers;Y. De Gheldre

  • High Interlaboratory Reproducibility of DNA Sequence-Based Typing of Bacteria in a Multicenter Study

    Marta Aires-de-Sousa;K Boye;H de Lencastre;A Deplano

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases (STROME-ID): an extension of the STROBE statement

    Nigel Field;Ted Cohen;Marc J Struelens;Daniel Palm

  • Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis

    Alessandro Cassini;Liselotte Diaz Hogberg;Diamantis Plachouras;Annalisa Quattrocchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariane Deplano
Ariane Deplano Université Libre de Bruxelles
Olivier Denis
Olivier Denis Université Libre de Bruxelles
Youri Glupczynski
Youri Glupczynski Université Catholique de Louvain
Michel Delmée
Michel Delmée Université Catholique de Louvain
Barry Cookson
Barry Cookson University College London
Jerome Etienne
Jerome Etienne Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean Louis Vincent
Jean Louis Vincent Université Libre de Bruxelles
Herman Goossens
Herman Goossens University of Antwerp
Denis Piérard
Denis Piérard Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Robert Skov
Robert Skov Statens Serum Institut

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