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Characterisation and Hazard identification of substandard and Falsified Antimicrobial Drugs. The CantiBio project 2016-2020
the amount of drug released is under the limit at the time point described by the USP. In addition to that, low equivalences of dissolution profiles between SF antimicrobials and genuine products were ...
NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE OF SARS-COV-2 IN WASTEWATER- How does WBE contribute to the global epidemiologic assessment in Belgium? (September 2020 – 2024)
24h-representative samples at the inlet of 42 wastewater treatment plants twice a week. The present report presents the COVID-19 wastewater-based epidemiology surveillance between February 2021 and December 2023 and ...
Recovering radiotherapy services in England: Our plan for action
visibility in the public debate as chemotherapy and other cancer treatments. This briefing explores the main drivers of lengthening waiting times for radiotherapy and what action we need at a national and ...
Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) point prevalence survey (PPS) reported a 5.9% HAI prevalence in European acute care hospitals, with Belgium showing a higher rate at 7.3%. In 2022, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...