Jan Kluijtmans

Full Professor

Biography

Jan Kluytmans did his medical training as well as specialization in Clinical Microbiology at Erasmus Medical University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The title of his PhD thesis in 1996, was: Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus: the key to preventing staphylococcal disease.

His scientific career focuses on the epidemiology and control of nosocomial infections, with a special interest in Staphylococcus aureus, surgical site infections and antimicrobial resistance. He has been involved in many national and international guidelines on infection control, especially those dealing with the control of MRSA and the prevention of surgical site infections. In 2006 he was appointed as Professor of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at the VU university medical center in Amsterdam. In 2014 he moved to the University Medical Center Utrecht, Julius Center, where he leads several work packages within the Combacte program. In 2017 he was appointed as Professor of epidemiology of Healthcare-related infections.

Until July 2021 he worked in the Amphia Hospital in Breda/Oosterhout and St. Elisabeth Hospital and TweeSteden Hospital in Tilburg as a consultant Microbiologist.

Since October 2021 he is head of the department of medical Microbiology at the UMC Utrecht.

He has more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and given more than 500 presentations and lectures.

Contact

jkluijtm@umcutrecht.nl

Pure profile

Recent publications

All publications

Impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa carriage on intensive care unit-acquired pneumonia Claudia Recanatini, Cornelis H van Werkhoven, Thomas E van der Schalk, Fleur Paling, Derek Hazard, Leen Timbermont, Gabriel Torrens, Antonio DiGiandomenico, Mark T Esser, Martin Wolkewitz, Frangiscos Sifakis, Herman Goossens, Marc Bonten, Antonio Oliver, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Jan Kluytmans,
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2025, vol. 31, p.433-440

Twenty Years of Lyme Borreliosis in the Netherlands B. J.A. Hoeve-Bakker, Oda E.van den Berg, H. S. Doppenberg, Fiona R.M.van der Klis, Cees C.van den Wijngaard, Jan A.J.W. Kluytmans, Steven F.T. Thijsen, Karen Kerkhof
Microorganisms, 2024, vol. 12

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases/European Committee on infection control clinical guidelines on pre-operative decolonization and targeted prophylaxis in patients colonized by multidrug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria befo Elda Righi, Nico T Mutters, Xavier Guirao, Maria Dolores Del Toro, Christian Eckmann, Alex W Friedrich, Maddalena Giannella, Elisabeth Presterl, Eirini Christaki, Elizabeth L A Cross, Alessandro Visentin, Gabriele Sganga, Constantinos Tsioutis, Evelina Tacconelli, Jan Kluytmans
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2024, vol. 30, p.1537-1550

One decade of point-prevalence surveys for carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacterales K M G Houkes, V Weterings, W van den Bijllaardt, M A G M Tinga, P G H Mulder, J A J W Kluytmans, M M L van Rijen, J J Verweij, J L Murk, J J J M Stohr
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2024, vol. 13

Association of Staphylococcus aureus Bacterial Load and Colonization Sites With the Risk of Postoperative S. aureus Infection. Darren P R Troeman, Derek Hazard, Cornelis H W van Werkhoven, Leen Timbermont, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar, Martin Wolkewitz, Alexey Ruzin, Frangiscos Sifakis, Stephan Harbarth, Jan A J W Kluytmans,
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2024, vol. 11

Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination to prevent febrile and respiratory illness in adults (BRACE) Laure Pittet, Nicole Messina, Ellie McDonald, Francesca Orsini, Simone Barry, Marc Bonten, John Campbell, Julio Croda, Mariana G. Croda, Margareth Dalcolmo, Kaya Gardiner, Amanda Gwee, Bruno Jardim, Marcus V.G. Lacerda, Michaela Lucas, David J. Lynn, Laurens Manning, Kirsten Perrett, Jeffrey J. Post, Cristina Prat-Aymerich, Peter C. Richmond, Jorge L. Rocha, Jesus Rodriguez-Baño, Adilia Warris, Nicholas J. Wood, Andrew Davidson, Nigel Curtis, Tenaya Jamieson, Nicole Messina, Thilanka Morawakage, Susan Perlen, Kirsten Perrett, Laure Pittet, Amber Sastry, Jia Wei Teo, Katherine Lee, Cecilia Moore, Suzanna Vidmar, Rashida Ali, Ross Dunn, Peta Edler, Grace Gell, Casey Goodall, Richard Hall, Ann Krastev, Axel Janssen, Darren Troeman, Jan Kluytmans, Nienke Paternotte, Bob Meek,
EClinicalMedicine, 2024, vol. 72

External positions

EC member - Scienc counsellor and member of EC - ESCMID

chair of the national signaleringsoverleg en antimicrobiele resistentie - chairing the meetings and communicating data - SOZI-AMR

Voorzitter - Bijdrage leveren aan de succesvolle bestrijding van Antibiotica Resistentie in Nederland - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Medische Microbiologie

Editorial Board Member of PLOS ONE - Arts-microbioloog - PLOS One