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

Securing the future of immunisation Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Zitta Barrella Harboe, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, Jon Friedland, Anu Kantele, Jan Kluytmans, Gülşen Özkaya Şahin, José Ramón Paño, Robert Skov, Annelies S. Zinkernagel,
CMI Communications, 2026, vol. 3

Correction to Wouter L. Smit, Herman F. Wunderink, Jan A.J.W. Kluytmans, Wim J.E. Tissing, E. H.Pieter van Dijkhuizen, Yvette G.T. Loeffen, Antoni P.A. Hendrickx,
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2026, vol. 26

Phenotypic convergence and collateral susceptibility development in Pseudomonas aeruginosa under antibiotic exposure in ICU patients Thomas E van der Schalk, Matilda Berkell, An Hottebeekx, Leen Timbermont, David E Tabor, Christine Lammens, Claudia Recanatini, Alexey Ruzin, Antonio DiGiandomenico, Hasan Jafri, Jean Chastre, Mark T Esser, Bruno François, Marc J M Bonten, Herman Goossens, Jan A J W Kluytmans, Antonio Oliver, Youri Glupczynski, Samir Kumar-Singh, Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar,
npj antimicrobials and resistance, 2026, vol. 4

Organizational readiness for implementing infection control in European hospitals Laura Caci, Kathrin Blum, Clara Johnson, Bianca Albers, Lauren Clack, Nadia Zuabi García, Panagiotis Zisimopoulos, Walter Zingg, Zheng Zheng Jessie Zhang, Sofia Zerva, Kristina Zefi, Daisy Vries, Pierluigi Viale, Eline Verhagen, Ourania Tsompikou, Sotirios Tsiodras, Stavroula Tsiara, Maria Tsakona, Carlo Torti, Andrea Tedesco, Sara Tedeschi, Maela Tebon, Labros Tampakas, Evelina Tacconelli, Manuel Suárez Vázquez, Giacomo Stroffolini, Ashlesha Sonpar, Anna Skiada, Nikolaos Sipsas, Elisa Sicuri, Vered Schechner, María Sánchez Valero, Inmaculada Salcedo, Natasha Salant, Rafael Ruiz Montero, Gian Maria Rossolini, Estrella Rojo Molinero, Friederike Roeder, Jesús Rodríguez Baño, Julie Robotham, Francesco Rizzolo, Pilar Retamar Gentil, Koen Pouwels, Corina Pop, Jack Pollard, Maria Pirounaki, María Teresa Pérez Rodríguez, Tudor Rareș Olariu, Jan Kluytmans, Greet Boland,
Implementation science communications, 2026, vol. 7

Securing the future of immunisation Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Zitta Barrella Harboe, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, Jon Friedland, Anu Kantele, Jan Kluytmans, José Ramón Paño, Robert Skov, Gülşen Özkaya Şahin, Annelies S. Zinkernagel,
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2026, vol. 32, p.516-518

External validation of risk indices and the development of a multivariable risk prediction model for surgical site infection in adults Darren P.R. Troeman, Stephan Harbarth, Jan A.J.W. Kluytmans, C. H. van Werkhoven, Annemie Van den Abeele, Wim Laffut, Tomáš Tomáš, Jan Neumann, Ivo Hanke, Radim Brat, Valeriu Gheorghita, Dorel Săndesc, Dan Corneci, Serban Ion Bubenek-Turconi, Adrian Todor, Piret Mitt, Mait Altmets, Pamela Barbadoro, Giuseppe Nardi, Francesco Castelli, Julián de la Torre Cisneros, Miquel Pujol Rojo, Dolores Escudero, Juan P. Horcajada, María Dolores del Toro López, Zorana Djordjevic, Sonja Konstantinovic, Biljana Carevic, Damian Mawer, Tony Bateman, Andrew Ustianowski, Martin Llewelyn, David Chadwick, Miruna David, Elodie Couvé-Deacon, Bas Vierhout, Lijckle van der Laan, Miquel Ekkelenkamp, Susanne Weber, Derek Hazard, Martin Wolkewitz, Alexey Ruzin, Christine Tkaczyk, Brett Selman, Frangiscos Sifakis, Frank Coenjaerts, Claudia Recanatini, Fleur Paling, Marc J.M. Bonten, Herman Goossens,
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2026, vol. 15

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