Cornelis W. Knetsch

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Cornelis W. Knetsch is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cornelis W. Knetsch has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Epidemiology, 16 papers in Infectious Diseases and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Cornelis W. Knetsch's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (15 papers), Microscopic Colitis (11 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (10 papers). Cornelis W. Knetsch is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (15 papers), Microscopic Colitis (11 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (10 papers). Cornelis W. Knetsch collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Cornelis W. Knetsch's co-authors include Ed J. Kuijper, Trevor D. Lawley, Hans C. van Leeuwen, Jeroen Corver, Céline Harmanus, Catherine D. Robinson, Jennifer M. Auchtung, James Collins, Heather A. Danhof and Robert A. Britton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Cornelis W. Knetsch

26 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile

2018 257 citations James Collins, Catherine D. Robinson et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cornelis W. Knetsch Netherlands	16	856	489	439	188	91	26	1.3k
Jean-Louis Pons France	17	883 1.0×	359 0.7×	356 0.8×	139 0.7×	66 0.7×	25	1.2k
Lisa F. Dawson United Kingdom	19	1.4k 1.6×	401 0.8×	615 1.4×	319 1.7×	52 0.6×	32	1.7k
Laurent Chesnel United States	20	553 0.6×	463 0.9×	292 0.7×	155 0.8×	186 2.0×	37	994
Gayatri Vedantam United States	20	1.8k 2.1×	735 1.5×	499 1.1×	382 2.0×	64 0.7×	44	2.1k
Melina Kachrimanidou Greece	12	824 1.0×	396 0.8×	199 0.5×	195 1.0×	94 1.0×	40	996
Jean‐François Lemeland France	15	779 0.9×	346 0.7×	359 0.8×	102 0.5×	58 0.6×	27	1.1k
Padman Jayaratne Canada	14	565 0.7×	299 0.6×	388 0.9×	148 0.8×	38 0.4×	25	891
Carl V. Crawford United States	12	577 0.7×	354 0.7×	640 1.5×	133 0.7×	29 0.3×	39	1.2k
Andrew E. Clark United States	12	489 0.6×	406 0.8×	282 0.6×	109 0.6×	126 1.4×	35	1.3k
V. Avesani Belgium	18	884 1.0×	417 0.9×	190 0.4×	127 0.7×	40 0.4×	28	1.1k

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Heesakkers, John, et al.. (2025). Microbiome profiling in patients with Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial cystitis. Continence. 14. 101743–101743. 1 indexed citations

Lamont, Ronnie, Saskia le Cessie, Ed J. Kuijper, et al.. (2021). Developing an algorithm for the diagnosis of abnormal vaginal discharge in a dutch clinical setting: a pilot study. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 101(1). 115431–115431. 2 indexed citations

Kuijper, Ed J., et al.. (2020). Nasal microbiota dominated by Moraxella spp. is associated with respiratory health in the elderly population: a case control study. Respiratory Research. 21(1). 181–181. 18 indexed citations

Zwittink, Romy D., Maurine A. Leverstein‐van Hall, Kim Boers, et al.. (2020). The vaginal microbiota in the course of bacterial vaginosis treatment. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 40(3). 651–656. 13 indexed citations

Kolk, Tessa Niemeyer‐van der, Martijn B. A. van Doorn, Jacobus Burggraaf, et al.. (2019). Inter- and Intra-patient Variability Over Time of Lesional Skin Microbiota in Adult Patients with Atopic Dermatitis. Acta Dermato Venereologica. 100(1). 1–2. 5 indexed citations

Boers, Kim, Ronnie Lamont, René te Witt, et al.. (2019). Comparison of Amsel criteria, Nugent score, culture and two CE-IVD marked quantitative real-time PCRs with microbiota analysis for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 38(5). 959–966. 34 indexed citations

Bekker, Vincent, Romy D. Zwittink, Cornelis W. Knetsch, et al.. (2019). Dynamics of the Gut Microbiota in Children Receiving Selective or Total Gut Decontamination Treatment during Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 25(6). 1164–1171. 13 indexed citations

Pereira‐Marques, Joana, Rui M. Ferreira, Inês Pinto-Ribeiro, et al.. (2019). Impact of Host DNA and Sequencing Depth on the Taxonomic Resolution of Whole Metagenome Sequencing for Microbiome Analysis. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1277–1277. 146 indexed citations

Henneman, Alex A., Jeroen Corver, Cornelis W. Knetsch, et al.. (2018). Proteomic identification of Axc, a novel beta-lactamase with carbapenemase activity in a meropenem-resistant clinical isolate of Achromobacter xylosoxidans. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8181–8181. 12 indexed citations

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Collins, James, Catherine D. Robinson, Heather A. Danhof, et al.. (2018). Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile. Nature. 553(7688). 291–294. 257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Beran, V., Ed J. Kuijper, Céline Harmanus, et al.. (2017). Molecular typing and antimicrobial susceptibility testing to six antimicrobials of Clostridium difficile isolates from three Czech hospitals in Eastern Bohemia in 2011–2012. Folia Microbiologica. 62(5). 445–451. 12 indexed citations

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Terveer, Elisabeth M., R.H.T. Nijhuis, Monique J. T. Crobach, et al.. (2017). Prevalence of colistin resistance gene (mcr-1) containing Enterobacteriaceae in feces of patients attending a tertiary care hospital and detection of a mcr-1 containing, colistin susceptible E. coli. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0178598–e0178598. 53 indexed citations

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Crobach, Monique J. T., Anne F. Voor in ’t holt, Cornelis W. Knetsch, et al.. (2017). An outbreak of Clostridium difficile infections due to new PCR ribotype 826: epidemiologic and microbiologic analyses. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 24(3). 309.e1–309.e4. 9 indexed citations

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Dorp, Sofie M. van, Sabine C. de Greeff, Céline Harmanus, et al.. (2017). Ribotype 078 Clostridium difficile infection incidence in Dutch hospitals is not associated with provincial pig farming: Results from a national sentinel surveillance, 2009-2015. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0189183–e0189183. 9 indexed citations

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Dorp, Sofie M. van, et al.. (2016). Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics ofClostridium difficileInfection Among Hospitalized Children in the Netherlands. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 64(2). 192–198. 17 indexed citations

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Beurden, Yvette H. van, Olaf M. Dekkers, Marije K. Bomers, et al.. (2016). An Outbreak of Clostridium difficile Ribotype 027 Associated with Length of Stay in the Intensive Care Unit and Use of Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract: A Case Control Study. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160778–e0160778. 15 indexed citations

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Fawley, Warren N., Cornelis W. Knetsch, Duncan MacCannell, et al.. (2015). Development and Validation of an Internationally-Standardized, High-Resolution Capillary Gel-Based Electrophoresis PCR-Ribotyping Protocol for Clostridium difficile. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0118150–e0118150. 172 indexed citations

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Knetsch, Cornelis W., et al.. (2013). Current application and future perspectives of molecular typing methods to study Clostridium difficile infections. Eurosurveillance. 18(4). 20381–20381. 93 indexed citations

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Knetsch, Cornelis W., Elisabeth M. Terveer, Chris Lauber, et al.. (2012). Comparative analysis of an expanded Clostridium difficile reference strain collection reveals genetic diversity and evolution through six lineages. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 12(7). 1577–1585. 76 indexed citations

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Verweij, Marieke C., Maaike E. Ressing, Cornelis W. Knetsch, et al.. (2011). Inhibition of mouse TAP by immune evasion molecules encoded by non-murine herpesviruses. Molecular Immunology. 48(6-7). 835–845. 22 indexed citations

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