Alex van Belkum

Preventing Surgical-Site Infections in Nasal Carriers of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>

L. Bode, Jan Kluytmans, Heiman Wertheim et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2010 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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

Heiman Wertheim, Alewijn Ott, Alex van Belkum et al. · The Lancet · 2004 · 895 citations · Full text

Healthcare-associated Infection, Antimicrobial Resistance, Hospital Epidemiology +4

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

Alex van Belkum, Panayotis T. Tassios, Lenie Dijkshoorn et al. · Clinical Microbiology and Infection · 2007 · 854 citations

Antibiotics, Molecular Epidemiology, Healthcare-associated Infection +10

Harmonization of Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocols for Epidemiological Typing of Strains of Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> : a Single Approach Developed by Consensus in 10 European Laboratories and Its Application for Tracing the Spread of Related Strains

S. Murchan, Mary E. Kaufmann, A. Deplano et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2003 · 631 citations

Representative Epidemic Mrsa, European Laboratories, Pathogen Detection +20

Reclassification of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Nasal Carriage Types

Alex van Belkum, Nelianne J. Verkaik, Corné P. de Vogel et al. · The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2009 · 425 citations · Full text