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Comparison of the Clinical Accuracy of Xpert HPV Assay on Vaginal Self-Samples and Cervical Clinician-Taken Samples within the VALHUDES Framework.

specimen handling Uterine Cervical Dysplasia Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Vagina Abstract: The accuracy of high-risk human papillomavirus testing with the Xpert HPV assay on vaginal self-samples was compared ...

Developing evidence-informed indicators to monitor HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes across EU/EEA countries: a multi-stakeholder consensus

of PrEP.  However, there is a lack of commonly defined indicators for routine monitoring to allow for minimum comparability. We propose a harmonised PrEP monitoring approach for the  EU / EEA, based on ...

Inequalities in the burden of non-communicable diseases across European countries: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study

and to identify those NCD s where the inequalities were the highest. METHODS: DALY rate ratios were calculated to determine and compare inequalities between the 30 EEA countries, by sex, and across ...

Novel prediction models for genotoxicity based on biomarker genes in human HepaRG™ cells.

forest (RF), was evaluated. More specifically, the predictive accuracy was compared, the sensitivity to outliers for one or more biomarker genes was assessed, and the prediction performance for 10 ...

Evaluating the health and health economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on delayed cancer care in Belgium: A Markov model study protocol

events, contexts and settings. METHODS: A decision-analytic Markov model was developed for 4 selected cancer types (i.e. breast, colorectal, lung, and head and neck), comparing the estimated costs and ...

Virological surveillance of influenza in Belgium, season 2019-2020

From week 10, the first SARS-CoV-2 patient were diagnosed. These patients were mostly adults and children above 14 years old. Severity was moderate in comparison to the previous season and comparable to ...

Integrating human papillomavirus testing as a point-of care service using GeneXpert platforms: Findings and lessons from a Kenyan pilot study (2019-2020).

screen test positivity, triage compliance, triage positivity and treatment compliance. Test agreement between local GeneXpert and central comparator high-risk HPV (hrHPV) testing for a random set of ...

Lumpy Skin Disease Virus Genome Sequence Analysis: Putative Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology, Single Gene versus Whole Genome Phylogeny and Genomic Evolution.

a whole-genome-sequence (WGS)-based phylogeny and compared it with single-gene-based phylogenies. To study population and spatiotemporal patterns in greater detail, we reconstructed networks. We determined that there are ...

Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: A scoping literature review

Arch Public Health, Volume 81, Issue 1 (2023) Keywords: burden of disease Comparative risk assessment Risk Factors Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Within the framework of the burden of disease (BoD) approach, ...

Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)

in excess for wave 1 was roughly comparable to those caused by COVID-19 obtained via the epidemiological surveillance. Excess mortality was also the highest during wave 1, with a 26.6% excess of death ...

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