Dr. Xiaohui Nielsen, Senior Consultant, Department of Clinical Microbiology Zealand University Hospital, Denmark
Xiaohui Chen Nielsen, MD, PhD, is a senior consultant with the regional Department of Clinical Microbiology at Zealand University Hospital in Denmark. Dr. Nielsen achieved her PhD at the Institute of Human Genetics at Aarhus University in Denmark in 2001 and earned her MD at China Medical University in 2005. She entered the field of clinical microbiology in 2001 and gained the title of Specialist in Clinical Microbiology in 2009. She has extensive experience implementing and evaluating new molecular diagnostic methods, including next-generation sequencing, in the routine laboratory. Her main research interests are using genome sequence analysis to study the taxonomy and pathogenesis of Streptococcus and related species and interactions between the microbiome and human diseases. She has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
