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Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
a crude prevalence of 28.1% of inpatients receiving at least one antimicrobial was recorded in Belgian hospitals. In 2022, the ECDC PPS was repeated in Belgian acute care hospitals to reassess both HAI ...
Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) and antimicrobial use (AU) in European acute care hospitals. In 2017, a crude prevalence of 28.1% (95% CI 27.3-29.0%) of inpatients receiving at least one antimicrobial was ...
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 ...
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, ...
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). ...
Virological surveillance of influenza in Belgium, season 2019-2020
season of moderate intensity characterized by the co-circulation of A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2), with the predominance of A(H1N1). The epidemic threshold was crossed at week 4-2020 (January 13 to January 19, ...
A new data collection system for Epilabo: the network of sentinel laboratories
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of having a robust, digital system for timely data collection of laboratory test results at the national level in the context of surveillance of ...
Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recommended that EU / EEA countries consider integrating PrEP into their existing HIV-prevention packages for those most at risk of HIV infection. In 2021, ...
Preparedness & response for emergency situations: joined forces of H2020 projects in the PREPARE cluster
a human, economic and social crisis, impacting people, societies and economies at their core. The European Commission has recently funded many projects (in the Horizon 2020 program, H2020) to work on ...