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Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
antimicrobial use point prevalence survey Abstract: Background: Point prevalence surveys (PPS) organized by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) play a crucial role in assessing ...
Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium (2024) Keywords: antimicrobial use healthcare-associated infections point prevalence survey Abstract: Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) and antimicrobial ...
Characterisation and Hazard identification of substandard and Falsified Antimicrobial Drugs. The CantiBio project 2016-2020
antibiotics Quality risk analysis Abstract: Studies on SF antimicrobials, one of the most frequently used medical products, circulating in Europe or other industrialized regions are very scarce. However, case ...
A One-Health approach to monitoring antimicrobial consumption in Belgium 2012-2021
was used. Belgian human AMC for systemic antimicrobials (ATC group J01) stratified by sector (community or hospital) were retrieved from the TESS y database, hosted by European Centre for Disease ...
Urinary tract infections in nursing home residents: Understanding the epidemiology and the clinical diagnosis and management
facilities; healthcare-associated infections; antimicrobial use Health Topics: Maladies nosocomiales Nosocomiale infectie Nosocomial infections Antibiotiques Antibiotica Antibiotics Multidrug resistant microbe ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
therefore a selection marker is often used to detect the bacteria who have included the modification in their genome. Antimicrobial resistance genes are often used as one of these markers. The construct may ...
Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges
Keywords: antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Food Safety foodborne outbreak investigation Monitoring SciCom Whole genome sequencing (WGS) Abstract: In October 2021 the Scientific Committee of the Federal Agency ...
Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health
defined as the study of all genetic material within a sample, using sequencing technologies. Shotgun metagenomics is capable of detecting a wide range of microorganisms in a sample, as well as their ...
Development of a data-intensive centralized system for surveillance and outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens using whole-genome sequencing
accreditation was obtained for the characterization of N. meningitidis based on the bioinformatics analysis of WGS data using this workflow, illustrating the feasibility of shifting towards WGS-based ...
Characterization and hazard identification of substandard and falsified antimicrobials encountered in Belgium
a subsequent quantification method using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (UHPLC- DAD) was also successfully validated. Next, real-life illegal antimicrobial samples, ...