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Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
monitored predominantly urban populations. In high-income countries (HIC s), composite sampling at centralised treatment plants was most common, whereas grab sampling from surface waters, open drains, and pit ...
Risk Factors Associated with Severe RSV Infection in Infants: What Is the Role of Viral Co-Infections?
bronchiolitis, but heterogeneity and small sample size in our study prevents us from drawing strong conclusions. RSV is worldwide the leading cause of serious airway infections. Up to 90% of children will be ...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection and hospitalisation in Belgium, July 2021 to May 2022.
sampling.ResultsWe included 1,932,546 symptomatic individuals, of whom 734,115 tested positive. VE i against Delta waned from an initial estimate of 80% (95% confidence interval (CI): 80-81) to 55% (95% CI: 54-55) ...
THE ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS COLLECTED DURING A SUMMER FESTIVAL AND EVALUATION OF THE NARCOREADER FOR ON-SITE ANALYSIS OF MDMA
time-consuming and of high cost. There is a need for more rapid and still accurate analysis, with cost-effective and portable methods. Aim: As the first goal of this study, a selection of drug samples is analysed ...
Occurrence of microcystin congeners in surface waters and food in Belgium as a source of exposure to humans
environmental samples. This has a negative downstream effect on possible risk assessment studies that would establish the exposure and influence of the different cyanotoxins on public health, and on the final ...
COVID-19 pandemic response in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion: methods, participation and recommendations of a longitudinal cross-border study
of 2021, a random sample of 26,925 adult citizens selected from governmental registries was invited to collect a blood sample at home for SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing and to fill in an online ...
Changes in household food and drink purchases following restrictions on the advertisement of high fat, salt, and sugar products across the Transport for London network: A controlled interrupted time series analysis
the Kantar Fast Moving Consumer Goods panel. The intervention and control samples were similar in household characteristics but had small differences in main food shopper sex, socioeconomic position, ...
COMBINATION OF CHEMOMETRICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL FINGERPRINTING FOR DETECTION OF REGULATED PLANTS IN PLANT FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
campaigns and availability through various different platforms can be rendered as catalysts for their popularity. In regards to the Belgian market, suspicious samples entering the border generate serious ...
Spectroscopic approaches for conformity analysis of e-liquids
taurine, vitamin E and CBD in e-liquids. Therefore a set of 236 e-liquids was selected. Since samples with caffeine, taurine, CBD and vitamin E as additives were hard to find, some of the samples were split ...
Third dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine closes the gap in immune response between naïve nursing home residents and healthy adults.
administration. Historical blood samples from 28 days post second dose were available from 42 residents and 42 staff members. Magnitude and quality of humoral and cellular immune responses were strongly boosted in ...