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Ketamine, a new (or old) kid on the block: A comprehensive three-year spatio-temporal study in Belgium through wastewater-based epidemiology
a temporal dataset from daily IWW samples from Leuven (n = 399) and Brussels (n = 285) in 2021 and 2022 was evaluated using time series analysis. Measured concentrations of ketamine, norketamine and ...
Impact of COVID-19 infection on lung function and nutritional status amongst individuals with cystic fibrosis: A global cohort study.
in mean ppFEV and BMI were compared using a t-test. A linear mixed-effects model was used to estimate change over time and to compare the rate of change before and after infection. RESULTS: A total of ...
NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE OF SARS-COV-2 IN WASTEWATER- How does WBE contribute to the global epidemiologic assessment in Belgium? (September 2020 – 2024)
tool, especially at the time where the testing capacity was high. Also, a preceding character was evidenced in several areas and is discussed in a dedicated section of the present report. Finally, results ...
Population health information research infrastructure—from data to public health actions
diverse policy responses and strategies were followed across the region causing the spread of contrasting messages and interventions, negatively impacting the health of the citizens. In times of crisis and ...
Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022
metrics at different lag times were used to predict incident COVID-19 cases. Model selection was based on AIC c minimization. Results: In 3¾0 WWTP s, RNA levels were best explained by incident cases, flow ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
men, across all age groups. COVID-19 CFR decreased over time. All-cause and excess mortality The all-cause CMR for Belgium was the highest for wave 2 (522 per 100,000 inhabitants). The number of deaths ...
Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
s). Almost all programmes analysed samples in-country, with an average processing time of 2·3 days in HIC s and 4·5 days in LMIC s. Whereas 59% of HIC s regularly monitored wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 ...
Development of a Droplet Digital PCR to Monitor SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant BA.2 in Wastewater Samples
used as a complementary method to other SARS-CoV-2 surveillance systems. It allows the emergence and spread of infections and SARS-CoV-2 variants to be monitored in time and place. This study presents an ...
Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general population in Belgium: Results of the second data collection (28/09/21-23/02/22)
this time period. During the second period of wave 2 (25/10-21/11) the prevalence increased further to 92.9%. Among the fully vaccinated having received the last dose (eventually a booster) in the past ...
The prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 study (PICOV) in nursing home residents and staff- study protocol description and presentation of preliminary findings on symptoms.
with SARS- COV-2” (PICOV) study is to compare the time to occurrence of an ILI or ARI between participants with a confirmed past SARS-CoV-2 infection (previously infected) and those without a confirmed ...