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Potential impact fractions of body mass index reductions on the non-communicable disease burden in Belgium using G-computation
scenarios, the proportion of diabetes cases prevented would be respectively 29.9% (SE 4.7), 4.2% (SE 0.77), 6.43% (SE 1.48), and 12.5% (SE 2.2). Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of overweight ...
Transforming Shiga toxin-producing surveillance through whole genome sequencing in food safety practices.
from 1998 to 2020 was analyzed. RESULTS: We confirmed that WGS in food safety surveillance allows accurate detection of genomic relationships between human cases and strains isolated from food samples, ...
Integrating human papillomavirus testing as a point-of care service using GeneXpert platforms: Findings and lessons from a Kenyan pilot study (2019-2020).
Papillomavirus Infections Pilot Projects Point-of-Care Systems Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Abstract: BACKGROUND: Globally, cervical cancer is a major public health problem, with about 604,000 new cases and over ...
Application of the Nagoya Protocol to veterinary pathogens: concerns for the control of foot-and-mouth disease.
awareness of the Nagoya Protocol, and to highlight its impacts on the regular exchange and utilisation of biological materials collected from clinical cases which underpin FMD research activities, and work to ...
Regulatory expectations on the use of vaccine reference standards for maintaining product quality.
reference standards are developed that can be used worldwide independently of the brand of the vaccine and this both by manufactures as well as by National Control Labs. In case international standards are ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
was an even distribution (50.2% and 48.7% respectively). Case classification 87.7% of the COVID-19 deaths in Belgium were laboratory-confirmed cases. In 2021 and 2022 around 96% of the COVID-19 deaths ...
Epidemiologie van COVID-19 mortaliteit in België van golf 1 tot golf 7 (maart 2020 – 11 september 2022)
en 923 per 100.000 inwoners onder niet- WZC bewoners (65+). COVID-19 case fatality ratio De COVID-19 case fatality ratio (CFR) in België werd geschat op 0,65%, maar nam exponentieel toe met de leeftijd ...
Estimated incubation period distributions of mpox using cases from two international European festivals and outbreaks in a club in Berlin, May to June 2022
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: McFarland, Sarah E; Marcus, Ulrich; Hemmers, Lukas; Miura, Fuminari; Iñigo Martínez, Jesús; Martínez, Fernando Martín; Montalbán, Elisa Gil; Chazelle, Emilie; Mailles, Alexandra; Silue, Yassoungo ...
Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study.
by non-typhoid Salmonella can be a fatal condition which is more common in low and middle-income countries. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a Salmonella meningitis in a Belgian six-month old ...
Social inequalities and long-term health impact of COVID-19 in Belgium: protocol of the HELICON population data linkage
a case study for linking highly sensitive individual-level information. We describe the data linkages between health surveillance records and administrative data sources necessary to investigate social ...