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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2023
health outcomes. The risk factors that were prioritised are those related to air quality, environmental noise and extreme temperature. In terms of outcomes, priority was given to all-cause mortality, ...
Protection conferred by an H5 DNA vaccine against highly pathogenic avian influenza in chickens: The effect of vaccination schedules.
a vaccination at 2 weeks of age, boosted at 4 weeks (2 doses), with or without adjuvant were characterized. The groups that received 1 dose with or without adjuvant as well as 2 doses with adjuvant demonstrated ...
Nationwide quality assurance of high-throughput diagnostic molecular testing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: role of the Belgian National Reference Centre.
laboratories and government-supported high-throughput platforms were gradually deployed across Belgium. Consequently, the role of the NRC transitioned from a specialised testing laboratory to strengthening ...
Clinical performance of the novel full-genotyping OncoPredict HPV Quantitative Typing assay using the VALGENT framework.
reproducibility of the assay was assessed on a subpopulation, comprising 526 samples. The relative sensitivity and specificity for OncoPredict HPV QT vs GP5 +/6+- PCR- EIA were 1.01 (95% CI: 0.99-1.03) and 1.03 ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
and before. Forty–three percent of hospital-wide HABSI cases and even 66% of ICU- BSI cases were linked to an invasive device whether directly (central and other catheters) or indirectly (urinary catheter, ...
Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections in Belgian Hospitals- Annual report 2023, Data up to and including 2022
2019 and before. Forty–three percent of hospital-wide HABSI cases and even 66% of ICU- BSI cases were linked to an invasive device whether directly (central and other catheters) or indirectly (urinary ...
Full Characterisation of Heroin Samples Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration
therefore 125 heroin samples were collected directly from users and analysed with classical chromatographic techniques. Further, MidInfrared spectra were collected for all samples, to be used in Partial Least ...
Epidemiology and molecular typing of multidrug-resistant bacteria in tertiary hospitals and nursing homes in Flanders, Belgium
Coninck, Dieter; De Bruyne, Katrien; Mensaert, Klaas; Kluytmans-van den Bergh, Marjolein; Kluytmans, Jan; Goossens, Herman; Dhaeze, Wouter; Leroux-Roels, Isabel; on behalf of the i-4-1-Health Study Group ...
Validation of a Targeted LC-MS/MS Method for Cereulide and Application in Food and Faeces.
were extracted with acetonitrile in the presence of C-cereulide, a labelled internal standard, and purified by centrifugation and filtration. The limits of quantification were 0.5 and 0.3 µg kg for food ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.
Borre; Matthieu Billuart; Niko Speybroeck; Robby De Pauw; Veerle Stouten; Lucy Catteau; Pierre Hubin Source: J Epidemiol Community Health (2023) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recent studies have identified ...