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A proposal for further developing fatigue-related post COVID-19 health states for burden of disease studies
lived with disability Abstract: Previous efforts to estimate the burden of fatigue-related symptoms due to long COVID have a very high threshold for inclusion of cases, relative to the proposed definition ...
Outbreak of Corynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers in Belgium in 2022: operational challenges and lessons learnt.
2022, 25 cases of toxigenic infection were confirmed among asylum seekers, mostly among young males from Afghanistan. Multi-locus sequence typing showed that most isolates belonged to sequence types 574 ...
Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalisation in adults (≥ 20 years) during Omicron-dominant circulation: I-MOVE-COVID-19 and VEBIS SARI VE networks, Europe, 2021 to 2022.
(SARI) from December 2021 to July 2022 (Omicron-dominant period).MethodsIn both networks, 46 hospitals (13 countries) follow a similar test-negative case-control protocol. We defined complete primary ...
Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 hospitalisation in adults (≥ 20 years) during Alpha- and Delta-dominant circulation: I-MOVE-COVID-19 and VEBIS SARI VE networks, Europe, 2021.
2021.MethodsForty-six participating hospitals across 14 countries follow a similar generic protocol using the test-negative case-control design. We defined complete primary series vaccination (PSV) as two doses of ...
Federated causal inference based on real-world observational data sources: application to a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine effectiveness assessmentAbstractIntroductionMethodsResultsConclusions
collected observational data across different regions in a federated manner, is challenging and guidance is currently lacking. With the aim of filling this gap and allowing a rapid response in the case of ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
the contamination of plant-based alternative to cheese with L. monocytogenes: the strain isolated from the affected individual (case) matched the strain found in the consumed vegan cheese-like product, ...
Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Belgian nursing homes’ residents during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic
(2022) Keywords: COVID-19 long-term care facilities Abstract: In April 2020, Belgium experienced high numbers of fatal COVID-19 cases among nursing home (NH) residents. In response, a mass testing campaign ...
Assessing the benefits of hypothetical air pollution reduction interventions on stroke in Belgium
The proportion of prevented stroke cases would be respectively of 65.5%, 35.4%, 23.9%, 12.3%, 10%. Conclusions This study highlights the importance of air pollution on the stroke burden and demonstrates ...
Belgian recommendations for analytical verification and validation of immunohistochemical tests in laboratories of anatomic pathology
IVDR classification and the origin) and its intended use (purpose), it addresses how to perform analytical verification/validation by recommending: (i) the number of cases in the validation set, (ii) the ...
A comparison of COVID-19 incidence rates across six European countries in 2021.
European countries: Belgium, England, France, Italy, Romania and Sweden. Data collected included: target testing populations, access to testing, case definitions, data entry and management and statistical ...