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Inhibition of MALT1 decreases neuroinflammation and pathogenicity of virulent rabies virus in mice.
Steven Van Gucht; Beyaert, R Source: J Virol (2018) Abstract: Rabies virus is a neurovirulent RNA virus, which causes about 59000 human deaths each year. Treatment for rabies does not exist due to ...
Neonatal factors predictive for respiratory and gastro-intestinal morbidity after esophageal atresia repair.
death. We used linear models with a binomial distribution to determine risk factors for gastro-intestinal or respiratory complicated evolution and a backward stepwise elimination procedure to reduce models ...
Activity-Based Detection and Bioanalytical Confirmation of a Fatal Carfentanil Intoxication.
department admissions and deaths. Here, we report on the application of a novel opioid activity reporter assay and a sensitive bioanalytical assay in the context of a fatal carfentanil intoxication, revealing ...
Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015.
From 2009 to 2015, 110 cases were notified to the Pedisurv network with a mean annual notification rate of 0.8/100,000 in children < 15 years. Death occurred in 2.5% of all patients and the median ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
mortality and animal welfare. This article introduces a novel metric, the Welfare-Adjusted Life Year (WALY), to estimate disease impact by combining welfare compromise and premature death components. Adapting ...
The use of the permanent sample (eps) to study the returnto- work after cancer. Challenges and opportunities for research
We observe during a five-year period the socio-professional status (inability, disability, unemployment or death) of 645 workers identified in the permanent sample (EPS), having had an oncological ...
Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomaviruses to prevent cervical cancer and its precursors.
1.98]; low certainty). The number of deaths was low overall but there is a higher number of deaths in older women. No pattern in the cause or timing of death has been established.Pregnancy outcomesAmong ...
Annual report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2016
national neonatal screening program so far. Within the year, eight deaths were reported (four of them in transplanted patients) with age at death ranging from 20.5 to 44.8 years while 17 patients benefitted ...
Heat and health in Antwerp under climate change: Projected impacts and implications for prevention.
near future (24.1deaths/year CI 95%: 6.78-41.94) and by a factor of 4.5 in the far future (60.38deaths/year CI 95%: 17.00-105.11). Under a heat acclimatization scenario, mortality does not increase ...
Palliative care service use by older people: Time trends from a mortality follow-back study between 2005 and 2014.
was initiated. RESULTS: General practitioners identified 5344 deaths. Overall, palliative care service use increased from 39% in 2005 to 63% in 2014 (p < 0.001). The use of a reference person for palliative ...