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Impact of substance type and patient characteristics on the choice of treatment setting for substance use disorder in Belgium
Treatment Demand Indicator). Logistic regression evaluated the weight of drug use and sociodemographic variables for people entering treatment for SUD for the first time (n = 8322). A random forest algorithm ...
Applying foresight methods at the national level in the field of substance use: Experience from the DRUGPREP project
This presentation will focus on the experience from the DRUGPREP project. While foresight has been used in other sectors, its implementation in the drugs field has previously remained relatively limited. ...
A protocol for identifying the needs related to drug use, health and social (re)integration of people living in prison within five European countries
Yiasemi, Ioanna; Mavrou, Josefina Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 82, Issue 1 (2024) Keywords: Drug use; Europe; Health; Mixed methods; People living in prison; Social (re)integration needs; Study ...
Future of opioid markets in Europe: Foresight approaches
will be for people who use heroin, drug treatment, drug prevention and harm reduction organizations, police or customs. Within the framework of the European DRUG- PREP-project, a workshop was organized ...
Substandard and falsified ivermectin tablets obtained for self-medication during the COVID-19 pandemic as a source of potential harm.
the candidate antiviral medicines tested was ivermectin. Although several health authorities warned the public against the use of this medicine outside clinical trials, the drug was widely used at the ...
Retrospective surveillance of viable Bacillus cereus group contaminations in commercial food and feed vitamin B2 products sold on the Belgian market using whole-genome sequencing
on the Belgian market. In total, 75 collected product samples were cultured on a general medium and, in case of bacterial growth, two isolates per product sample were collected and characterized using ...
Antimicrobial resistance in ESBL and indicator E. coli, Campylobacter spp.,Salmonella spp., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterococcus faecalis and faecium isolated from food and food-producing animals (primary production) in 2023
βlactamases/AmpC/carbapenemase producing E. coli is done on strains isolated from food-producing animals and meat derived thereof. Microbiological resistance was assessed using epidemiological cutoff values (ECOFF) according to ...
Chemoprophylaxis of close contacts of invasive cases of haemophilus influenzae: a review
2000 to 2023, using any combination of “Haemophilus influenzae”, “Haemophilus influenzae invasive”, “Haemophilus infections” or “bacterial meningitis” with “antibiotic prophylaxis”, “post exposure ...
Development and validation of a ddPCR assay to detect and quantify tobacco DNA in smoke and smokeless tobacco and tobacco-free products.
(qPCR) method being currently used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to specifically detect the presence of tobacco DNA in targeting a sequence from the nia-1 gene. To ensure a harmonized and ...
Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study.
were used (odds ratio = 0.3; 95% confidence interval = 0.127-0.749). In vivo selection of bacteriophage resistance and in vitro bacteriophage-antibiotic synergy were documented in 43.8% (7/16 patients) ...