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Down below, you can find a selection of our highest impact papers.

 


 

Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical characteristics and outcomes of adult pneumococcal meningitis patients - a Dutch prospective nationwide cohort study.

Fabian D Liechti, Merijn W Bijlsma, Matthijs C Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek

Infection. 2024 Jun 3.

Otitis in patients with Community-Acquired Bacterial Meningitis: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study.

Ranzenigo M, van Soest TM, Hensen EF, Cinque P, Castagna A, Brouwer MC, van de Beek D.

Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 24:ciae221.

Granulocytes in cerebrospinal fluid of adults suspected of a central nervous system infection: a prospective study of diagnostic accuracy.

Staal SL, Olie SE, Ter Horst L, van Zeggeren IE, van de Beek D, Brouwer MC; I.-PACE Study Group.

Infection. 2024 Mar 23.

Bacterial load in cerebrospinal fluid predicts unfavourable outcome in pneumococcal meningitis: a prospective nationwide cohort study

Nora Chekrouni, Thijs M van Soest, Ana C da Cruz Campos, Matthijs C Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Jun;30(6):772-778.

Diagnostic accuracy of inflammatory markers in adults with suspected central nervous system infections.

Olie SE, Staal SL, Ter Horst L, van Zeggeren IE, Man WK, Tanck MWT, van de Beek D, Brouwer MC.

J Infect. 2024 Mar;88(3):106117.

Short-term and long-term risk of mortality and neurodevelopmental impairments after bacterial meningitis during infancy in children in Denmark and the Netherlands: a nationwide matched cohort study

Snoek L, Gonçalves BP, Horváth-Puhó E, van Kassel MN, Procter SR, Søgaard KK, Chandna J, van der Ende A, van de Beek D, Brouwer MC, Sørensen HT, Lawn JE, Bijlsma MW

Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2022 Sep;6(9):633-642

Community-acquired bacterial meningitis

van de Beek D, Brouwer MC, Koedel U, Wall EC.

Lancet. 2021 Sep 25;398(10306)

Mortality, neurodevelopmental impairments, and economic outcomes after invasive group B streptococcal disease in early infancy in Denmark and the Netherlands: a national matched cohort study

Horváth-Puhó E, van Kassel MN, Gonçalves BP, de Gier B, Procter SR, Paul P, van der Ende A, Søgaard KK, Hahné SJM, Chandna J, Schrag SJ, van de Beek D, Jit M, Sørensen HT, Bijlsma MW, Lawn JE.

Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 Jun;5(6):398-407.

Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in adults in the Netherlands, 2006-14: a prospective cohort study.

Bijlsma MW, Brouwer MC, Kasanmoentalib ES, Kloek AT, Lucas MJ, Tanck MW, van der Ende A, van de Beek D.

Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Mar;16(3):339-47.

The Preventive Antibiotics in Stroke Study (PASS): a pragmatic randomised open-label masked endpoint clinical trial.

Westendorp WF, Vermeij JD, Zock E, Hooijenga IJ, Kruyt ND, Bosboom HJ, Kwa VI, Weisfelt M, Remmers MJ, Ten Houten R, Schreuder AH, Vermeer SE, van Dijk EJ, Dippel DW, Dijkgraaf MG, Spanjaard L, Vermeulen M, van der Poll T, Prins JM, Vermeij FH, Roos YB, Kleyweg RP, Kerkhoff H, Brouwer MC, Zwinderman AH, van de Beek D, Nederkoorn PJ; for the PASS investigators.

Lancet. 2015 Jan 19.

A decade of herd protection after introduction of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccination.

Bijlsma MW, Brouwer MC, Spanjaard L, van de Beek D, van der Ende A.

Clin Infect Dis. 2014;59:1216-21

Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in the Netherlands, 1960-2012: an analysis of national surveillance data.

Bijlsma MW, Bekker V, Brouwer MC, Spanjaard L, van de Beek D, van der Ende A.

Lancet Infect Dis. 2014;14:805-12.