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Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Belgian nursing homes’ residents during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic
(2022) Keywords: COVID-19 long-term care facilities Abstract: In April 2020, Belgium experienced high numbers of fatal COVID-19 cases among nursing home (NH) residents. In response, a mass testing campaign ...
Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022
per SD increase, respectively. In 38/40 WWTP s, variants did not explain variability in RNA levels independent of cases. Furthermore, our study shows that RNA levels can lead incident cases by at least ...
Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys
representativeness due to self-selection but were an important information source as there were few alternatives. Moreover, by following-up the same individuals over time it was possible to study the effect of the ...
Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study.
by non-typhoid Salmonella can be a fatal condition which is more common in low and middle-income countries. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a Salmonella meningitis in a Belgian six-month old ...
Interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness: six European studies, October 2022 to January 2023.
ADOLESCENT Adult Case-Control Studies Child denmark Humans Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype Influenza A Virus, H3N2 Subtype Influenza B virus Influenza Vaccines Influenza, Human Male middle aged Seasons ...
Poor timing and failure of source control are risk factors for mortality in critically ill patients with secondary peritonitis.
Mikstacki; José-Artur Paiva; Cecilia Pereyra; Jordi Rello; Jean-Francois Timsit; Vogelaers, Dirk; Blot, Stijn; Abdominal Sepsis Study (AbSeS) group and the Trials Group of the European Society of Intensive ...
Accuracy of high-risk HPV DNA PCR, p16(INK4a) immunohistochemistry or the combination of both to diagnose HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer
cancers (OPC), is increasing in high-resource countries. Patients with HPV-induced cancer respond better to treatment and consequently have lower case-fatality rates than patients with HPV-unrelated OPC. ...
Hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children- epidemiological overview of cases reported in Europe, 1 January to 16 June 2022.
Euro Surveill, Volume 27, Issue 31 (2022) Keywords: Child COVID-19 Europe Hepatitis A Hospitalization Humans SARS-CoV-2 Abstract: Following the report of an excess in paediatric cases of severe acute ...
Organizing the health interview survey at the local level: design of a pilot study.
BACKGROUND: The local Health Interview Study (LHIS) was developed to gain health information at the level of the municipality in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. It enables municipalities to make ...
Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines
Lyme disease suspicion. Method: A 6-year retrospective population-based study based on data collected by the Belgian network of Sentinel General Practices (SGP). GP s report on a case-by-case basis using ...