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Occurrence of microcystin congeners in surface waters and food in Belgium as a source of exposure to humans
group worldwide, the microcystin congeners (MC s). After method validation, the quantitative UHPLC- MS / MS approaches were applied to Belgian samples to characterize potential human exposure sources in ...
Development, Validation and Application of a Targeted LC-MS Method for Quantification of Microcystins and Nodularin: Towards a Better Characterization of Drinking Water
odors, or possibly worse, toxic compounds also known as cyanotoxins. A major group of cyanotoxins are the hepatotoxins, categorized as such due to their main toxicological effect. Two other structurally ...
Different Effects of a School-Based Physical Activity Intervention on Health-related Quality of Life
the intervention effect of a school-based physical activity intervention on Health-related Quality of Life for groups with different physical activity profiles at baseline. The intervention, Move for ...
Lineages Within the Trichophyton rubrum Complex.
group are T. rubrum, causing mainly skin and nail infections, and T. violaceum which is mostly scalp-associated. The status of a third species, T. soudanense, has been under debate. With a polyphasic ...
Comparison of SNP-based subtyping workflows for bacterial isolates using WGS data, applied to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium and serotype 1,4,[5],12:i:.
(low-coverage) datasets and two different reference genomes. All three tested workflows, namely CSI Phylogeny-based workflow, CFSAN-based workflow and PHE nix-based workflow, were able to correctly group the ...
Dermal exposure of Belgian florists to insecticide residues
bouquets, a study was carried out with a group of florists. On one hand, 90 bouquets of the most commonly sold cut flowers in Belgium (roses, gerberas and chrysanthemums) were sampled and analysed to ...
Genetic damage in humans exposed to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields.
Research on Cancer in the group of ‘possible human carcinogens’ (group 2B) is essentially based on epidemiologic evidence showing an association between MF exposures and childhood leukaemia. Despite many in ...
Airtightness in Belgian high biocontainment facilities
D/2016/2505/14 Accession Number: D/2016/2505/14 Keywords: airtightness biosafety BSL-3 Recommendations Abstract: Following a discussion in 2011 at the meeting of the European Joint Enforcement Group of Contained ...
Short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy morbidity in the Brussels-Capital Region.
interquartile augmentation in pollen distributions increased significantly for Poaceae, Betula, Carpinus, Fraxinus and Quercus. Poaceae affected the widest age group and led to the highest increase of risk which ...
A survey of pesticide residues in cut flowers from various countries.
handling cut flowers, a survey was carried out with a group of florists from the Belgian largest cities. Fifty samples of roses (5 stems per bouquet) were collected: 45 bouquets were sampled in the 7 largest ...