Current projects

Lot Quality Assurance Sampling

Efficient sampling to obtain population-based estimates of antimicrobial resistance.

Syndemic of hypertension, diabetes, mental illness and HIV in Eswatini

A nested national survey within a rollout of community-based hypertension care.

Antimicrobial drug resistance in urinary tract infections in Indonesia.

A project on effective surveillance strategies for antimicrobial resistance

Previous projects

Urinary tract infection in nursing home residents

Assessing the usefullness of potential point-of-care tests and non-specific symptoms as diagnostic tools.

Identifying accumulation of resistance-associated mutations during tuberculosis treatment

Assessing the effects of inappropriate initial treatment for MDR-TB

Tuberculosis prevalence surveys

National TB prevalence surveys in Tanzania and Bangladesh.

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Europe

Management of patients with MDR-TB in the TBnet clinical network.

Tuberculosis control in the immigrant population in the Netherlands

Contact tracing and mandatory screening for TB in immigrants.

Community-based directly-observed treatment for tuberculosis treatment

Assessing the role and effectiveness of treatment supporters.

Five Most Recent Publications

(2023). Relative cost of multidrug-resistant TB medicines in Europe.. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

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Recent & Upcoming presentations

Who we are and what we are going to do

How can we move from laboratory-based to population-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance?

Who we are and what we are going to do

How certain are published estimates on the burden of disease?

Can LQAS-based surveillance provide locally-relevant estimates?

General public summaries

Findings from a national survey in Tanzania

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