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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The landscape of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a mapping systematic review

Source: Trop Med Health, Volume 51, Issue 1 (2023) Keywords: Antimalarial drug resistance Democratic Republic of Congo Malaria Molecular markers of drug resistance mutations Abstract: CONTEXT: The ...

Association between SARS-CoV-2 variants and post COVID-19 condition: findings from a longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population

and September 2022 in Belgium. In total, 8,238 adults with a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were followed up between the time of their infection and three months later. The primary outcomes were the PCC ...

The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults

superior predictive validity compared to the currently employed algorithm by the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI). METHODS: The current study includes a secondary ...

Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Belgian nursing homes’ residents during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic

regression. In total, 695 NH s were included, 282 (41%) had at least one resident tested positive. Higher infection rate among residents was associated with a higher fraction of RVT beds, generally occupied by ...

Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance.

patients fulfilling the Belgian SARI definition between January 2020 and December 2022 were sequenced using the ARTIC Network amplicon tiling approach on a MinION platform. Weekly variant of concern (VOC) ...

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