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Assessing the authenticity and purity of a commercial Bacillus thuringiensis bioinsecticide through whole genome sequencing and metagenomics approaches
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Van Laere, Yari; Fraiture, Marie-Alice; Gobbo, Andrea; Sigrid C.J. De Keersmaecker *; Marchal, Kathleen; Nancy Roosens; Vanneste, Kevin Source: Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 16 (2025) Health ...
Wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance- Yearly report- 2024
approach for the testing of various issues relevant to public health. Although WBE is well documented for the monitoring of illicit drugs and poliomyelitis, the interest in its utilisation to assess broader ...
Method development for analysis of nanoplastics in drinking water and milk using transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
risk assessment. This TEM-based approach was validated using polystyrene (PS) reference beads in the size range 60-500 nm, encompassing all analysis steps, from sample preparation to image analysis. Typically, the ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
a summary measure that combines both mortality and morbidity. In EB oD- FL, a novel approach is developed where the EBD is calculated locally at the level of the statistical sector. This approach adds ...
Assessment of receptor-mediated activity (AhR and ERα), mutagenicity, and teratogenicity of metal shredder wastes in Wallonia, Belgium.
including fluff, dust, and scrubbing sludge were sampled in 2019 from two metal shredding facilities located in Wallonia, Belgium. To assess the extent of the contamination, a global approach combining ...
A validation methodology for size and shape measurement of nanoplastics by transmission electron microscopy
impacts. In this study, we establish a foundational framework for such measurements by validating a transmission electron microscopy (TEM)-based approach, in the context of the European project PlasticTrace ...
What drives the long-term changes in airborne birch and grass pollen levels in Belgium?
transport model SILAM (System for Integrated modeLling of Atmospheric coMposition) was applied using ECMWF ERA5 meteorological data with a bottom-up emission approach for the period 1982–2019 under ...
Estimating the Uncertainty in Airborne Birch Pollen Modelling
Methods The uncertainty in modelling airborne birch pollen levels near the surface using SILAM is quantified based on a Monte-Carlo error approach for the season of 2018 in Belgium using varying major model ...
Metabarcoding and metagenomics techniques in monitoring airborne pollen
alternative approach is the identification of pollen through molecular sequencing and DNA analysis. Different high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have been used to massively analyse environmental DNA ...
A systematic review and meta-analysis of human population studies on the association between exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and left ventricular dysfunction (LVD).
regulation. When examining the link between myocardial abnormalities and environmental exposure, it is also advisable to explore the supportive use of Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) approaches to confirm ...