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Max Heck
Researcher at Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Publications - 58
Citations - 4397
Max Heck is an academic researcher from Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus & Salmonella. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 58 publications receiving 4057 citations.
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Extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes of Escherichia coli in chicken meat and humans, The Netherlands.
I. T. M. A. Overdevest,Ina Willemsen,Martine C. Rijnsburger,Andrew Eustace,Li Xu,Peter M. Hawkey,Max Heck,Paul H. M. Savelkoul,Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls,Kim van der Zwaluw,Xander W. Huijsdens,Jan Kluytmans +11 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the abundant presence of ESBL genes in the food chain may have a profound effect on future treatment options for a wide range of infections caused by gram-negative bacteria.
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Community-acquired MRSA and pig-farming.
X. W. Huijsdens,Beatrix J van Dijke,Emile Spalburg,Marga G van Santen-Verheuvel,Max Heck,Gerlinde N. Pluister,Andreas Voss,Wim J. B. Wannet,Albert J. de Neeling +8 more
TL;DR: A MRSA cluster among family members of a pig-farmer, his co-workers and his pigs shows clonal spread and transmission between humans and pigs in the Netherlands and puts the until now successful Search and Destroy policy of the Netherlands at risk.
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Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Escherichia coli From Retail Chicken Meat and Humans: Comparison of Strains, Plasmids, Resistance Genes, and Virulence Factors
Jan Kluytmans,I. T. M. A. Overdevest,Ina Willemsen,Marjolein F. Q. Kluytmans-van den Bergh,Kim van der Zwaluw,Max Heck,Martine C. Rijnsburger,Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls,Paul H. M. Savelkoul,Brian D. Johnston,David M. Gordon,James R. Johnson +11 more
TL;DR: Significant genetic similarities among ESBL-EC isolates from chicken meat and humans according to mobile resistance elements, virulence genes, and genomic backbone are found and raises serious food safety questions regarding the abundant presence of ES BL-EC in chicken meat.
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Food-initiated outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus analyzed by pheno- and genotyping.
Jan Kluytmans,W. van Leeuwen,Wil H. F. Goessens,Richard J. Hollis,Shawn A. Messer,Loreen A. Herwaldt,H Bruining,Max Heck,J. A. Rost,N. Van Leeuwen +9 more
TL;DR: P Pheno- and genotyping studies underlined the value of DNA fingerprinting methods for investigation of MRSA epidemiology and supported the suggestion that the outbreak strain may have been more virulent and more transmissible than other MRSA strains.
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Human-to-Dog Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Engeline van Duijkeren,M. J. H. M. Wolfhagen,Adrienne T.A. Box,Max Heck,Wim J. B. Wannet,Ad C. Fluit +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, MRSA was cultured from the nose of a healthy dog whose owner was colonized with MRSA while she worked in a Dutch nursing home and typing of the staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec (SCCmec) region showed that both MRSA strains were identical.