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Assessment of estrogenic compounds in paperboard for dry food packaging with the ERE-CALUX bioassay
a dry food migration experiment. By measuring an overall estrogenic activity, known and unknown estrogenic chemicals and mixture effects are taken into account and the data are compared to molecule ...
Shifting national surveillance of Shigella infections toward geno-serotyping by the development of a tailored Luminex assay and NGS workflow.
observation spurred the development of an in silico workflow which extracts the Shigella serotype from Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, taking into account gene functionality. Both tools will be ...
Human psittacosis: a review with emphasis on surveillance in Belgium.
infection to severe atypical pneumonia and systemic disease. This paper reviews new knowledge on psittacosis, its legal and regulatory aspects and presents epidemiological data on psittacosis in Belgium. In ...
The practice of female genital mutilation across the world: Data availability and approaches to measurement
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Claudia Cappa; L Van Baelen; Els Leye Source: Global Public Health, Volume 14, Issue 8 (2019) Manuscript versions: DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1571091 File: Version: Published F ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
contribution of chronic conditions to gender differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) and life expectancy with disability (LED) in Belgium in 2001, 2004 and 2008. Methods Data on disability and ...
Strong increase of true and false positive mycobacterial cultures sent to the National Reference Centre in Belgium, 2007 to 2016.
of containing mycobacteria.AimTo present mycobacterial surveillance/diagnosis data from the Belgian National Reference Centre for mycobacteria (NRC) from 2007 to 2016.MethodsThis retrospective ...
Co-circulation of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and influenza A(H3N2) viruses, World Health Organization (WHO) European Region, October 2018 to February 2019.
viruses circulated widely and detection levels in primary care and hospital settings were similar to past seasons. Hospitalisation data may suggest an increased susceptibility to A(H1N1)pdm09 virus in older ...
European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered?
mortality was estimated using the FluMOMO algorithm, incorporating influenza activity based on clinical and virological surveillance data, and adjusting for extreme temperatures. Results Excess mortality was ...
Monitoring of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in beehive products and derivatives on the Belgian market
ng/g. The highest level was detected in a bee-collected pollen sample (1672 ng/g). The analytical results were consistent with the previously reported data for beehive products and confirmed that PA s/ ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015
estimates, default ranges were created for countries with no data which encompassed the values encountered elsewhere. Blood lead levels and IQ decrements were estimated using functions previously developed by ...