Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

 

Prof. Dr. E.J. Kuijper is the head of the Experimental Microbiology and the Reference Laboratory for Clostridium difficile at the Leiden University Medical Centre.  The National  Reference Laboratory has an intensive collaboration with the Centre for Infectious Disease Control of the National Institute of Public Health and the Evironment. During the past 10 years, dr. Kuijper obtained various grants from national and European organisations for scientific research on the area of C. difficile. Dr. Kuijper has more than 300 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books