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Contextual factors influencing the equitable implementation of precision medicine in routine cancer care in Belgium
factors, identified through a comprehensive literature review and validated by a multidisciplinary group at the Belgian Cancer Center, Sciensano. An expert survey further assesses the importance and ...
An overview of programmatic indicators to monitor the roll-out of HIV preexposure prophylaxis.
suggested for monitoring PrEP programmes. We conducted a scoping review based on the framework by Arksey and O’M alley. We combined a systematic search in the peer-reviewed literature with hand-searching grey ...
Evaluating methodological approaches to assess the severity of infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants: scoping review and applications on Belgian COVID-19 data.
and biases that researchers are confronted with and evaluate different methodological approaches to study the severity of infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants. METHODS: We reviewed the literature to ...
Intra- and inter-laboratory comparison of mDixon and FastFung broths for Malassezia antifungal susceptibility testing.
literature. FFB showed to enhance Malassezia growth and displayed 100% (±2-fold dilution) EA s demonstrating similar performances to mDIXB. In addition, the MIC data obtained by using the FFB were reproducible ...
Healthcare-associated infections in home healthcare: an extensive assessment, 2019.
and recommendations for infection prevention and control (IPC).MethodsThe study included three components: a scoping literature review, in-depth interviews with individuals involved in HHC and ...
Consumer and food product determinants of food wasting: A case study on chicken meat
food convenience grade and shorter shelf life. Some relationships between household wastage and food product determinants contrast with expectations based on literature. The cause can be that some ...
Position paper on the use of an “estimated acceptable concentration” (EAC) as basis for a control policy's action level for carcinogens unintentionally present in food
substantiated by a quick scoping review of scientific literature and reports. Key findings and conclusions Case-dependent, whether a threshold effect level can be defined or not, the EAC is calculated based on ...
Identification of risk areas and practices for Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
collected from published and grey literature accessed through an electronic database and manual search. RESULTS: The literature search resulted in 776 outputs of which 132 conformed to the predefined ...
A new multiplex RT-qPCR method for the simultaneous detection and discrimination of Zika and chikungunya viruses
and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses simultaneously. Methods Two methods targeting different genome segments were selected from the literature for each virus. These were adapted for high genome coverage and ...
A new multiplex RT-qPCR method for the simultaneous detection and discrimination of Zika and chikungunya viruses.
literature for each virus, adapted for high genome coverage and joined into a four-plex assay which was thoroughly in-house validated. The SCREENED tool was used to evaluate the sequence coverage of ...