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Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
of HAI s, with Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Klebsiella spp. being the most common isolates. Regarding antimicrobial use, the survey found that 29.3% (95% CI: 28.4-30.2%) of patients ...
Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
infections), as well as for surgical and medical prophylaxis (12.4 and 6.6%, respectively). Notably, only 22.7% of surgical prophylaxis courses (n=100/440) lasted more than one day. The top three most used ...
Characterisation and Hazard identification of substandard and Falsified Antimicrobial Drugs. The CantiBio project 2016-2020
antibiotics Quality risk analysis Abstract: Studies on SF antimicrobials, one of the most frequently used medical products, circulating in Europe or other industrialized regions are very scarce. However, case ...
Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
aureus (10.8%), and Klebsiella spp. (10.2%) being the most common isolates. SARS-CoV-2 accounted for 7.9% of isolated microorganisms. Conclusion: This PPS provided valuable insight on the prevalence of ...
Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
pictures of insects. Participants perceived the severity of MBV s as high (mean score 6.0/7.0), but their susceptibility to MBV s and mosquitoes lower (4.3/7.0). Participants were most motivated to take ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
source, the most significant partitioning criteria for urine AsT is typically the recent consumption of fish/seafood. This was also the case for AB, the organic specie of As that is mostly present in fish ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
include children aged 2-17 years. The highest educational level among parents is used as a proxy for SES and is dichotomized into lower (at most a higher secondary degree versus high (higher education). ...
Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices
human health. Most of the produced plastics are used for packaging items, from cosmetic to food applications. Up to now, the most common plastics used for packaging have been petroleum-derived, such as ...
Dietary exposure of Sorbates (E 200 – 202) and Benzoates (E 210 – 213) for the Belgian population
adolescents and adults). The occurrence data from the chemical analyses were combined with consumption data from the most recent Belgian food consumption survey reflecting the consumer’s consumption patterns ...
Pyrogen testing of phage therapeutic products
contamination (e.g. cell wall debris) is a major safety concern as these pro-inflammatory agents can cause unwanted clinical reactions with potential detrimental outcome. The most common and potent pyrogens are ...