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Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
ESCAIDE, ECDC, Barcelona, Spain (2023) Keywords: Health Belief Model KNOWLEDGE Mosquitoes Perception Vector Borne Diseases Abstract: Background Effective preparedness for emerging mosquito-borne viruses (MBV ...
Identification and characterization of inorganic food additives and pearlescent pigments in sprays for food decoration by STEM-EDX
commercially available food-decoration sprays of different colours, containing mixtures of food additives and pearlescent pigments. No dispersion protocols or purifications steps were applied to optimally assess ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
had detectable concentrations of AsT. The geometric mean urine concentrations for adolescents were 8.1 μg/L for AsT, 2.7 μg/L for AB, and 3.7 μg/L for TRA. Since fish or seafood are a major arsenic ...
Belgian general practitioners’ perception and use of physical activity on prescription
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Sherihane Bensemmane; Robby De Pauw; Hans Keune; Robrecht De Schreye Source: European Journal of Public Health, Volume 33, ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
Materials and Methods Food samples were collected by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) and analysed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Foodborne outbreaks ...
Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
outbreak. Additionally, the living S. aureus strain was spiked into mashed potatoes at a level of 10 5 CFU per 25 grams and three DNA extraction kits were tested, in combination with two databases for ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, were classified using the above developed models. 10 out of 12 samples were suggestively found to be positive by binary modelling whereas 11 ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
waning protection against severe COVID-19 infection, booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines were recommended among individuals who received their primary course. A first COVID-19 vaccine booster campaign ...
Evolution of patient characteristics and outcomes concerning diabetic foot ulcer care in Belgium between 2008 and 2020
Methods: Data were cross-sectionally collected between 2008 and 2020. Recognized MDFC s included the first 52 patients with a new DFU of Wagner 2 or higher during the audit period. Person and ulcer ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
measuring health-related quality of life among DFU patients. It consists of 29 items in 6 subscales: leisure, physical health, dependence/daily life, negative emotions, worried about ulcers and bothered by ...