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Strong increase of true and false positive mycobacterial cultures sent to the National Reference Centre in Belgium, 2007 to 2016.
Mathys Source: Euro Surveill, Volume 24, Issue 11 (2019) Abstract: IntroductionIn 2007, a new federal legislation in Belgium prohibited non-biosafety level 3 laboratories to process culture tubes suspected ...
Time-and-motion tool for the assessment of working time in tuberculosis laboratories: a multicentre study.
Werf; F Drobniewski; V Nikolayevskyy Source: Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2018) Keywords: hands-on time laboratory diagnosis Workload Abstract: SETTING: Implementation of novel diagnostic ...
A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study.
Soolingen; Stefan Niemann; Erik C Böttger; Peter M Keller; MDR-TB Cluster Consortium Source: Lancet Infect Dis (2018) Keywords: Cluster Tuberculosis Abstract: BACKGROUND: The risk of tuberculosis outbreaks ...
Meropenem-clavulanate for drug-resistant tuberculosis: a follow-up of relapse-free cases.
Volume 22, Issue 1 (2018) Keywords: Carbapenems repurposed drugs XDR-TB Abstract: BACKGROUND: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR- TB), defined as TB caused by a Mycobacterium strain resistant to ...
Virulence and immunogenicity of genetically defined human and porcine isolates of M. avium subsp. hominissuis in an experimental mouse infection
Abstract: Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (Mah) represents a health concern for humans and to a lesser extent for pigs, but its zoonotic potential remains elusive. Using multispacer sequence typing ...
Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Brussels, 2010-2013.
Surveillance Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant Urban Health Young adult Abstract: The tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in Brussels-Capital Region is 3-fold higher than in Belgium as a whole. Eight ...
WIV-ISP's experiences in the use of MALDI-TOF for the identification of Mycobacteria and their drug resistance profiles
testing identification MALDI-TOF Mycobacterium tuberculosis Abstract: An Van den Bossche presented WIV- ISP 's experiences in the use of Brüker’s Biotyper MALDI- TOF for the identification of ...