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Urinary tract infections in nursing home residents: Understanding the epidemiology and the clinical diagnosis and management

facilities; healthcare-associated infections; antimicrobial use Health Topics:  Maladies nosocomiales Nosocomiale infectie Nosocomial infections Antibiotiques Antibiotica Antibiotics Multidrug resistant microbe ...

Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety

study within the problematic of the spread of antimicrobial resistance in the environment. These organisms are genetically modified to enhance the production of a compound (e.g. enzymes, vitamins), and ...

Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Food Safety foodborne outbreak investigation Monitoring SciCom Whole genome sequencing (WGS) Abstract: In October 2021 the Scientific Committee of the Federal Agency ...

Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health

composing genes such as virulence or antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, without prior knowledge, nor the need to isolate. Such approaches could offer efficient and fast solutions to limitations faced by ...

Infection prevention and control in Belgian nursing homes: knowledge, attitudes and practices of general practitioners at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Healthcare-associated infection Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Zorginfectie Infection liée aux soins Résistance aux antimicrobiens (AMR) Antimicrobiële resistentie (AMR) Service:  Infections liées aux soins et ...

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Clostridioides difficile infections in Belgian acute care hospitals in 2020.

Service:  Infections liées aux soins et antibiorésistance Zorginfecties en antibioticaresistentie Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance Manuscript versions:  File:  Version:  Pre-print ...

Development of a data-intensive centralized system for surveillance and outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens using whole-genome sequencing

research projects. These projects cover many of the responsibilities of a public health institute, including phylogenomic investigation, surveillance of antimicrobial resistance, detection and ...

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 ...

Comparative dissolution study on substandard and falsified antibiotics encountered in Belgium

resistance and drug side effects [1]. In general, the evaluation of SF antimicrobials mainly focuses on the identification and quantification of the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API s), ignoring other ...

RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

: microbes and vectors, Issue Institute Pasteur, Paris, France (2018) Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; antimicrobial resistance; diagnostics Abstract: To counter the long turnaround time of standard ...

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