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Contextual factors influencing the equitable implementation of precision medicine in routine cancer care in Belgium
individualized form of care, spanning multiple scientific disciplines including drug discovery, genomics, and health communication. This study aims to explore the contextual factors influencing the equitable ...
Evaluation of an electrochemical sensor and comparison with spectroscopic approaches as used today in practice for harm reduction in a festival setting-A case study: Analysis of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine samples
Maarten Degreef; Margot Balcaen Source: Drug Test Anal (2023) Keywords: ATR-(N)IR drug checking electrochemical detection MDMA Mobile detection approaches Abstract: More and more countries and organisations ...
THE ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS COLLECTED DURING A SUMMER FESTIVAL AND EVALUATION OF THE NARCOREADER FOR ON-SITE ANALYSIS OF MDMA
identification ketamine MDMA mid-IR Narcoreader near-IR On-site Quantification RAMAN UV spectroscopy Abstract: Background: The most used on-site methods to identify illicit drugs consist of color tests or ...
Challenges in Drug Surveillance: Strengthening the Analysis of New Psychoactive Substances by Harmonizing Drug Checking Services in Proficiency Testing.
towards drug checking services, proficiency testing was set up to evaluate existing analytical techniques and investigate the capability to correctly identify circulating NPS. Twenty blind substances, ...
Towards clinical breakpoints for non-tuberculous mycobacteria- Determination of epidemiological cut off values for the Mycobacterium avium complex and Mycobacterium abscessus using broth microdilution.
Microbiol Infect (2023) Abstract: OBJECTIVE: For non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) distributions of wild-type isolates have not been systematically evaluated despite ...
Which drugs of choice are on the rise or in decline? A trend analysis of Belgium’s treatment settings (2015-2019)
evaluate trends for all drugs of choice at a national and regional level. These results might not only benefit national policymakers but also other countries with similar alcohol or drug use patterns. Health ...
Retrospective evaluation of routine whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the Belgian National Reference Center, 2019.
MTB strains analyzed in 2019 (n = 306). RESULTS: In all cases, the WGS-based procedure was able to identify correctly the MTB species. Compared to MGIT drug susceptibility testing (DST), the sensitivity ...
Deep amplicon sequencing for culture-free prediction of susceptibility or resistance to 13 anti-tuberculous drugs.
Here, we evaluated the Deeplex Myc- TB targeted deep sequencing assay for prediction of resistance to 13 anti-tuberculous drugs/drug classes, directly applicable on sputum. With MTBC DNA tests, the limit ...
Use of a Whole Genome Sequencing-based approach for Mycobacterium tuberculosis surveillance in Europe in 2017-2019: an ECDC pilot study.
molecular typing and characterisation of complex (MTBC) strains. We evaluated the systematic use of a WGS-based approach for MTBC surveillance involving all European Union/European Economic Area (EU / EEA) ...
Characterization and hazard identification of substandard and falsified antimicrobials encountered in Belgium
essential life-saving medicines could cause treatment failures, antimicrobial resistance and drug side effects [1]. Therefore, validated and robust analytical tools enabling the identification and ...