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Quantitative decision making in animal health surveillance: Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance in Belgium as case study.
applied across Europe, bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a constant threat. In Belgium, after several years of official bTB-free status, routine movement testing, as currently practiced, revealed itself ...
Frequency of Participation in External Quality Assessment Programs Focused on Rare Diseases: Belgian Guidelines for Human Genetics Centers.
analyzed 90 EQA schemes offered by accredited providers and focused on analyses used for the diagnosis of rare diseases. On that basis, the experts developed practical recommendations about the minimal ...
An infrared spectroscopic approach to characterise white powders, easily applicable in the context of drug checking, drug prevention and on-site analysis
was more performant and allowed the estimation of the dosage/purity of the amphetamine, cocaine and ketamine samples with an error of more or less 10% w/w. An easily applicable, practical and cost-effective ...
Coverage of the national surveillance system for human Salmonella infections, Belgium, 2016-2020.
National Reference Center (NRC). Knowledge of current diagnostic practices and the coverage of the national Salmonella surveillance system are important to correctly interpret surveillance data and trends ...
The Belgian practice and attitudes towards introducing genomics in clinical oncology
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Marc Van den Bulcke; Wannes Van Hoof; Els Van Valckenborgh; Aline Hébrant; Gordana Rajcevic; Kristof Van Assche Source: Belgian journal of medical oncology, Volume 15, Issue 4, p.177- 185 (2021) ...
Food companies’ commitments and practices on food environments and nutrition in Belgium: A detailed assessment. Company assessments and recommendations using the Business Impact Assessment on obesity and population nutrition (BIA-Obesity)
Nutritional quality Abstract: The BIA-Obesity project studied for the first time the commitments and practices of Belgium’s largest food companies in the area of nutrition, health and obesity prevention. For ...
Food companies’ commitments and practices on food environments and nutrition in France: A detailed assessment. Company assessments and recommendations using the Business Impact Assessment on obesity and population nutrition (BIA-Obesity).
BIA-Obesity project studied for the first time the commitments and practices of France’s largest food companies in the area of nutrition, health and obesity prevention. For each company, their nutrition-related ...
Precision cancer medicine: What has translated into clinical use in Belgium?
across the health care system, to facilitate the uptake of NGS in routine clinical practice. We compiled feedback on deployment of the NGS Roadbook from governmental stakeholders and beneficiaries: health ...
Determinants of adherence to COVID-19 measures among the Belgian population: an application of the protection motivation theory.
understand why implemented measures are useful and how they can be put into practice, more than on increasing fear appeals. Health Topics: Coronavirus Coronavirus Coronavirus Manuscript versions: DOI: ...
Towards Real-Time and Affordable Strain-Level Metagenomics-Based Foodborne Outbreak Investigations Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Technologies
routine laboratory practices to investigate food samples in case of foodborne outbreaks still rely on attempts to isolate the pathogen in order to characterize it. We present in this study a proof of ...