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Researcher
Jan Jacobs
- Disciplines (Institute of Tropical Medicine):Clinical microbiology
- Disciplines (KU Leuven):Biochemistry and metabolism, Microbiology, Systems biology, Laboratory medicine, Medical biochemistry and metabolism
- See also: Jan Jacobs (KU Leuven)
Affiliations
- Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → Today - Tropical Bacteriology (Research unit)
Member
From1 Jan 2006 → 31 Oct 2024 - Tropical Bacteriology (Research unit)
Member
From1 Jan 2006 → 16 Apr 2015
Projects
1 - 10 of 41
See also Jan Jacobs for projects of KU Leuven.
Here below the projects of Institute of Tropical Medicine.
- Improve research capacity in infectious disease to inform policy & control strategiesFrom1 Jan 2022 → Today
- Clinical diagnostic trial in Western Africa of a simplified blood culture system to improve healthcare in low-resource settingsFrom1 Jul 2021 → 31 Dec 2024
- Selected topics in hospital infection prevention and control in sub-Saharan AfricaFrom1 Jan 2021 → Today
- Predicting and treating non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infections in children in sub-Saharan AfricaFrom17 Apr 2020 → 20 Dec 2023
- Old school bacteriology revisited: need for in-depth knowledge on bacterial growth to tune diagnosis of bloodstream infections for use in low resource settingsFrom1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2022
- Understanding antimicrobials use: An ethnographic study of rural communities in Burkina FasoFrom1 Jan 2020 → Today
- Advancing a GMMA-based vaccine against invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis through Phase I trial in Europe and sub-Saharan AfricaFrom1 Oct 2019 → 31 Oct 2023
- Pilot clinical bacteriology in the EVD care response to detect intercurring bloodstream infections and inform about appropriate antibiotic treatmentFrom1 Aug 2019 → 30 Jun 2020
- Effect of a novel typhoid conjugate vaccine in Africa: a multicenter study in Ghana and the DRCFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2023
- To strengthen the research capacity in the resource limited setting of Burkina Faso.From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2019
Publications
1 - 10 of 267
See also Jan Jacobs for publications of KU Leuven.
Here below the publications of Institute of Tropical Medicine.
- Revisiting bacteriology diagnostics: how to make them globally available and accessible(2025)Published in: Clinical Microbiology and InfectionISSN: 1198-743XIssue: 10Volume: 31Pages: 1615-1617
- The cost of blood cultures: a barrier to diagnosis in low-income and middle-income countries(2025)Published in: Lancet MicrobeISSN: 2666-5247Issue: 8Volume: 6
- Emerging carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a tertiary care hospital in Lima, Peru(2025)Published in: Microbiology SpectrumISSN: 2165-0497Issue: 2Volume: 13
- Developing a clinical prediction model to modify empirical antibiotics for non-typhoidal Salmonella bloodstream infection in children under-five in the Democratic Republic of Congo(2025)Published in: BMC Infect DisISSN: 1471-2334Issue: 1Volume: 25
- Performance evaluation of the Mini-Lab, an all-in-one clinical bacteriology laboratory adapted to low-resource settings, in a district hospital in Central African Republic: A prospective descriptive study(2025)Published in: International Journal of Infectious DiseasesISSN: 1201-9712Volume: 159
- Healthcare-associated bloodstream infections caused by bacterial and fungal contamination of intravenous fluids and medicines in healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review(2025)Published in: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection ControlISSN: 2047-2994Issue: 1Volume: 14
- Hospital-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative bacteria in Peru(2024)Number of pages: 220
- Combining machine learning with high-content imaging to infer ciprofloxacin susceptibility in isolates of Salmonella Typhimurium(2024)Published in: Nat CommunISSN: 2041-1723Issue: 1Volume: 15
- Bacterial contamination of mobile handwashing stations in hospital settings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo(2024)Published in: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection ControlISSN: 2047-2994Issue: 1Volume: 13
- Blood culture bottles remain efficient months after their expiration date: implications for low- and middle-income countries(2024)Published in: Clinical Microbiology and InfectionISSN: 1198-743XIssue: 10Volume: 30Pages: 1327-1328