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Fusarium, clinical relevance and mass spectrometry methods for identification, using strains of the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM/IHEM

variety of opportunistic human infections. In order to study the clinically relevant species diversity, the more than 300 Fusarium strains in the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM / IHEM, mostly ...

General practice patients treated for substance use problems: a cross-national observational study in Belgium.

Disorders Abstract: BACKGROUND: General Practitioners (GP s) are well placed to care for patients with (chronic) substance use problems. This pilot was carried out to study the feasibility and usefulness of ...

Improving influenza virological surveillance in Europe: strain-based reporting of antigenic and genetic characterisation data, 11 European countries, influenza season 2013/14

characterisation data was established for the 2013/14 influenza season. In a pilot study, 11 EU / EEA countries reported through the new mechanism. We demonstrated feasibility of reporting strain-based antigenic and ...

Capture-Recapture Estimators in Epidemiology with Applications to Pertussis and Pneumococcal Invasive Disease Surveillance.

Volume 11, Issue 8, p.e0159832 (2016) Keywords: Adult Epidemiological Monitoring Feasibility Studies Female Hospitalization Humans Male middle aged Models, Theoretical Pneumococcal Infections Spatial ...

TOGETHER Project to Increase Understanding of the HIV Epidemic Among Sub-Saharan African Migrants: Protocol of Community-Based Participatory Mixed-Method Studies.

interviews, lifelines, and patient files; and (3) an acceptability and feasibility study of oral fluid sampling in community settings using participant observations. RESULTS: Results have been obtained from ...

Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Salmonella Enteritidis PT4 Outbreaks from a National Reference Laboratory's Viewpoint.

and human isolates being available, and this for both outbreaks, made these the ideal case study for a retrospective whole genome sequencing (WGS) analysis with the goal to investigate the feasibility ...

Statistical framework for detection of Genetically Modified Organisms based on Next Generation Sequencing

pioneers already investigated Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) as an alternative to qPCR, its practical use has not been assessed for routine analysis. In this study a statistical framework was developed to ...

Implementation of a quality improvement initiative in Belgian diabetic foot clinics: feasibility and initial results.

Randon; Eric Weber; Viviane Van Casteren; Nobels, Frank; Initiative for Quality Improvement and Epidemiology in Diabetic Foot Clinics (IQED-Foot) Study Group Source: Diabetes Metab Res Rev, Volume 30, Issue ...

Accuracy of human papillomavirus testing on self-collected versus clinician-collected samples: a meta-analysis.

to HPV testing on samples collected by clinicians. METHODS: We identified relevant studies through a search of PubMed, Embase, and CENTRAL. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they fulfilled all of ...

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