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BY-COVID Educational Toolkit
Introduction The aim of the BY- COVID project is to make infectious disease data accessible to scientists in laboratories, but also to anyone likely to use them, such as medical staff in hospitals or ...
Vaccine effectiveness of the second and third COVID-19 boosters in Belgium (administered during 2022 autumn campaign)
booster doses. Here we assessed the COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection and hospital admission among those who received the second and third boosters in Belgium administered during and ...
Pyrogen testing of phage therapeutic products
Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels. With a few exceptions, the results on different phages demonstrate that in general pyrogenic contamination is low for most samples. Health Topics: ...
The direct disease burden of COVID-19 in Belgium in 2020 and 2021
model, using Belgian seroprevalence, social contact, hospital, and intensive care admission data, (b) deaths were sourced from the national COVID-19 mortality surveillance, and (c) chronic post-acute ...
Evaluation of a point-of-care test for the diagnosis of Taenia solium neurocysticercosis in rural southern Tanzania: a diagnostic accuracy study.
Patients with epileptic seizures or severe progressive headache were recruited consecutively from three hospitals in southern Tanzania. All patients were tested with the TS POC test. All patients positive ...
Assessing European national health information systems in peer review format: lessons learnt
Health, Volume 33, Issue 4, Number 584 (2023) Keywords: european continental ancestry group health care systems hospital information systems information systems negotiating World Health Organization ...
Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based Screening of MRSA in Patients and Healthcare Workers in Public Hospitals in Benin.
In this study, patients and healthcare workers (HCW s) from six public hospitals in Benin were screened for MRSA. Strains were identified as MRSA using conventional microbiological methods in Benin, ...
Direct impact of COVID-19 by estimating disability-adjusted life years at national level in France in 2020
post-acute consequences, in 28 days (baseline) up to 140 days, following the initial infection. METHODS: National mortality, COVID-19 screening, and hospital admission data were used to calculate DALY s based ...
European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance For Belgium (EARSBE, EARSBE-URI, EARSBE-AMR)- Data call 2022, including case and data definitions, and instructions for participating laboratories.
Number: r D/2023.14.440/24 Keywords: Acute care hospitals Antimicrobial resistance Bloodstream infection clinical laboratories multidrug resistance urinary tract infection Health Topics: Multidrug ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
years old, males represented the highest fraction of COVID-19 deaths. Places of death Most of the COVID-19 deaths took place in hospitals (67.7%), followed by nursing homes (31.9%). During wave 1, there ...