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Vaccine effectiveness of the second and third COVID-19 boosters in Belgium (administered during 2022 autumn campaign)

COVID-19 was rolled out to the adult population in Belgium, followed by the first booster campaign towards the end of the year. At the beginning of 2022, booster doses were recommended and offered to people ...

Transforming Shiga toxin-producing surveillance through whole genome sequencing in food safety practices.

to isolates collected within the context of Belgian food safety surveillance and combined with data from clinical isolates to evaluate its benefits. A cross-sector WGS-based collection of 754 strains ...

Burden of disease among older adults in Europe-trends in mortality and disability, 1990-2019

demographic change that has taken place in Eastern European countries implies a potential problem of directed resource allocation to the health care sector. Furthermore, the findings highlight the potential ...

The European Health Data Space 2: is Europe ready to maximise the re-use of health data?

Abstract: The EU ’s Heads of State called in October 2020 to set up a European Health Data Space (EHDS): “The European Council welcomes the creation of common European data spaces in strategic sectors, and in ...

Organizing the health interview survey at the local level: design of a pilot study.

target sample size was 1000 (≥ 15 years). A systematic sampling technique was applied with substitutes for non-respondents who were matched in terms of statistical sector, age and sex. Selected persons ...

Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020

health and on the pig production sector is not well known in many of those countries, including Burundi. This study aimed at estimating the burden of T. solium cysticercosis in Burundi including data on ...

Large diversity of linezolid-resistant isolates discovered in food-producing animals through linezolid selective monitoring in Belgium in 2019.

genomes and relatedness of these isolates. METHODS: Faecal samples (n = 1325) and nasal swab samples (n = 148) were analysed with a protocol designed to select LR bacteria, including a 44-48 h incubation ...

A detailed mapping of the food industry in the European single market: similarities and differences in market structure across countries and sectors

received limited attention from the public health community. The aim of this study was to analyse similarities and differences in market structure across countries and industries in the European ...

A genoserotyping system for a fast and objective identification of Salmonella serotypes commonly isolated from poultry and pork food sectors in Belgium.

their variants, subjected to an official control in the Belgian food sector. In this study, 3 additional assays using the same technology were developed for the rapid and cost-effective detection of 13 ...

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