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The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
year (107 DALY per 100 000 persons). The economic burden was estimated to represent direct costs of €112 million, indirect costs of €927 million (90% of the total costs) and an average total cost of €103 ...
The seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in Belgium anno 2002 and 2006: a comparative analysis with hepatitis A virus seroprevalence
Belgian cross-sectional serological datasets from 1993, 2002 and 2006, was used as a comparator since individuals acquire lifelong immunity upon recovery, implying an increasing seroprevalence with age. The ...
Burden and Risk Assessment of Foodborne Disease
costs associated with foodborne disease. In this chapter, we present an overview of the key methodological approaches that have been used to generate estimates of the health and economic burden of ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from prenatal exposure to methylmercury, 2015
(MeHg). An intelligence quotient < 70, indicating intellectual disability (ID), was selected as the critical disease, maternal hair Hg concentration during pregnancy selected as the critical exposure ...
An awkward fishing expedition
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: L. Marissiaux; M-L Scippo; Daube,G.; Sarah Denayer; N Botteldoorn; S. Gobert; B. Scholtes; Ghuysen, A. Source: Acta Anæsthesiologica Belgica, Volume 69 n° 2 (2018) Keywords: histamine fish poison ...
Pork as a source of transmission of Toxoplasma gondii to humans: a parasite burden study in pig tissues after infection with different strains of Toxoplasma gondii as a function of time and different parasite stages.
De Craeye Source: Int J Parasitol, Volume 48, Issue 7 (2018) Abstract: Toxoplasma gondii is an ubiquitous apicomplexan parasite which can infect any warm-blooded animal including humans. Humans and ...
Use of next‐generation sequencing in microbial risk assessment
the past decade has also witnessed an increase in microbial food alerts. Hence, research on food safety and quality remain of utmost importance. Complementary, and at least as important, is the ...
Detection and discrimination of five E. coli pathotypes using a combinatory SYBR® Green qPCR screening system
subsequently evaluated on four food matrices artificially contaminated with pathogenic E. coli. It allowed the detection of an initial contamination level as low as 2 to 7 cfu of STEC /25 g of food matrix after ...
A pan-European ring trial to validate an International Standard for detection of Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus in seafoods
International Journal of Food Microbiology (2018) Keywords: Biochemical methods Conventional PCR Oysters Prawns Real-time PCR seafood Vibrios Abstract: Globally, vibrios represent an important and ...
Food-Borne Outbreak Investigation and Molecular Typing: High Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Importance of Toxin Detection
electrophoresis (PFGE) SEA SEB SEC SED staphylococcal food poisoning (SFP) Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins Abstract: Staphylococcus aureus is an important aetiological agent of food intoxications in the European ...