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Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
that CLABSI incidence in 2022 remains at an increased level as compared to pre- COVID19 years. We therefore recommend a strong focus on the prevention of this type of HABSI, in the first place by freeing ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
HABSI origin in 2022, and that CLABSI incidence in 2022 remains at an increased level as compared to pre- COVID19 years. We therefore recommend a strong focus on the prevention of this type of HABSI, in ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
removing breeding sites (self-efficacy, 4.8/7.0). Ninety-seven percent of participants reported implementing at least one preventive measure, mainly to prevent bites (95%). Conclusions Together with the ...
Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
period covered in this report is April 2022 to March 2023. The rVE of first, second and third booster doses was estimated and compared to the VE of complete primary vaccination received at least 24 weeks ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
include children aged 2-17 years. The highest educational level among parents is used as a proxy for SES and is dichotomized into lower (at most a higher secondary degree versus high (higher education). ...
Belgian general practitioners’ perception and use of physical activity on prescription
diseases (CD s), i.e. healthy life years lost due to morbidity and mortality. In addition, 29.5% of Belgians self-declared having at least one chronic disease. Moreover, almost 30% of the population above 15 ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
Materials and Methods Food samples were collected by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) and analysed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Foodborne outbreaks ...
Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
Staphylococcus aureus) compared to shotgun metagenomics without adaptive sampling on DNA of mashed potatoes spiked with DNA of S. aureus at a level of 0.5%. The strain was previously associated with a foodborne ...
Microbial quality analysis of falsified medicines seized by controling agencies
are known to be encoding proteins that can cause gastrointestinal illness upon ingestion. These results indicate that at least 16 samples from the 32 substandard and falsified medicinal products ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
channels for their purchase. Therefore, some of these products may be ‘suspicious’ and a risk for consumers health. This study aims at developing a screening approach for detection of four regulated plants ...