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Understanding sexual transmission dynamics and transmission contexts of monkeypox virus: a mixed-methods study of the early outbreak in Belgium (May-June 2022).
OBJECTIVE: The available epidemiological and clinical evidence from the currently ongoing monkeypox (MPX) outbreak in non-endemic areas suggests an important factor of sexual transmission. However, limited ...
Exploring how the urban neighborhood environment influences mental well-being using walking interviews
Brussels-Capital Region. This paper provides a detailed description of physical neighborhood factors (green-blue spaces, services, design and maintenance, traffic, cellphone towers) and social neighborhood factors ...
Initiative for quality improvement and epidemiology among children and adolescents with diabetes (IQECAD)
improve the processes and outcomes of care by implementing a system of audit and feedback in Belgian HBMC s. To identify risk factors of poor care delivery and outcomes. Methods In 2009, twelve HBMC ...
Emergence of bluetongue serotypes in Europe, part 1: description and validation of four real-time RT-PCR assays for the serotyping of bluetongue viruses BTV-1, BTV-6, BTV-8 and BTV-11.
All assays exhibited a linear range of at least 0.05-3.80 log(10) TCID (50) ml(-1) and a PCR-efficiency approaching the ideal amplification factor of two per PCR cycle. Both intra- and inter-run ...
Description of cervical cancer mortality in Belgium using Bayesian age-period-cohort models.
could be observed, reflecting increased exposure to risk factors. The fact that this increase was limited for the youngest cohorts could be explained as an effect of screening. Bayesian modeling provided ...
Collaborative development of an innovative provocation protocol in studying electrohypersensitivity
contributions of the various factors involved. These innovative studies need to integrate the criticisms of stakeholders when they are scientifically legitimate. The ExpoComm project intends to develop an ...