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Mirjam Kretzschmar

Full Professor

Research groups

Infectious disease modelling Utrecht

Research aim

Our mission is to use state-of-the-art mathematical and statistical modelling techniques to gain insight into the dynamics of infectious diseases in populations and to improve public health interventions for disease control.

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Recent publications

Testing paradox may explain increased observed prevalence of bacterial STIs among MSM on HIV PrEP Laura Müller, Piklu Mallick, Antonio B. Marín-Carballo, Philipp Dönges, Robyn J.N. Kettlitz, Carolina J. Klett-Tammen, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Viola Priesemann, Seba Contreras
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025, vol. 122
Phylodynamic inference suggests introductions as main driver of Mpox Clade II outbreak in 2022 in Slovenia Bastiaan Van Der Roest, Egil A.J. Fischer, Don Klinkenberg, Martin C.J. Bootsma, Mojca Maticic, Katarina Resman-Rus, Miša Korva, Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc, Mirjam Kretzschmar
Epidemiology and Infection, 2025, vol. 153
The expected impact of a cure for HIV among people with HIV and key populations Kim A G J Romijnders, Franco Romero Gonzalez, Amy Matser, Myrthe L Verburgh, Maartje Dijkstra, Peter Reiss, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Pythia Nieuwkerk, Maarten Schim van der Loeff, Maartje Basten, Ganna Rozhnova
Communications medicine, 2025, vol. 5
Model-based evaluation of the impact of a potential HIV cure on HIV transmission dynamics Alfredo De Bellis, Myrthe S Willemsen, Giorgio Guzzetta, Ard van Sighem, Kim A G J Romijnders, Peter Reiss, Maarten F Schim van der Loeff, Janneke H H M van de Wijgert, Monique Nijhuis, Mirjam E E Kretzschmar, Ganna Rozhnova
Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16
Phylodynamic assessment of SNP distances from whole genome sequencing for determining Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission Bastiaan R Van der Roest, Martin C J Bootsma, Egil A J Fischer, Matthias I Gröschel, Richard M Anthony, Rina de Zwaan, Mirjam E E Kretzschmar, Don Klinkenberg
Scientific Reports, 2025, vol. 15
Impact of increased diagnosis of early HIV infection and immediate antiretroviral treatment initiation on HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in the Netherlands Alexandra Teslya, Janneke Cornelia Maria Heijne, Maarten Franciscus Schim van der Loeff, Ard van Sighem, Jacob Aiden Roberts, Maartje Dijkstra, Godelieve J. de Bree, Axel Jeremias Schmidt, Kai J. Jonas, Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, Ganna Rozhnova
PLoS Computational Biology, 2025, vol. 21