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Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
which 50% had a medium and 40% a high knowledge level. Participants scored high on questions related to mosquito ecology but lower on MBV s. Only 19% of participants correctly identified mosquitoes among ...
Identification and characterization of inorganic food additives and pearlescent pigments in sprays for food decoration by STEM-EDX
control laboratories and only limited guidance is currently available3. This study developed electron microscopy-based methods to identify and characterize the particles of individual components in eight ...
Belgian general practitioners’ perception and use of physical activity on prescription
identified chronic disease and exercise initiation as incentives for PAP. 41% would refer to PA (motivational) coaches, 55.2% to (adapted) PA courses. Lack of training (12.7%), time (49.3%), and knowledge of ...
Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices
larger MP s in terms of occurrence, distribution, quantification, and toxicological effects on humans identifying food as their main intake source. Nowadays, research interest is going towards MP s with ...
Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
analysing the DNA of the sample, it can identify the presence of various pathogens to the strain level. Moreover, adaptive sampling is a new tool proposed during nanopore sequencing to target certain DNA ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
multiclass models could be made. Furthermore, it can be concluded that the combination of chemometrics and multi-wavelength chromatographic fingerprinting is a promising approach for identifying plants using ...
Homologous versus heterologous prime-boost COVID-19 vaccination: impact on clinical severity of Omicron among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Belgium
systems and administrative sources were leveraged to estimate a causal effect. A Directed Acyclic Graph was formalized to identify confounding factors. The target population consisted of adult COVID-19 ...
ESCAIDE 2022 Oral presentation: International outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to a chocolate factory in 2022: Belgian findings
confirmed cases were identified using ECDC case definitions. Case-interviews focused on exposure to chocolate products of the concerned brand. Raw materials and finished food products collected at the factory ...
Estimates of people who injected drugs within the last 12 months in Belgium- presentation
maintained and to monitor the harm reduction targets set by international organisations. We obtained pseudo-anonymized identifier information about PWID from two treatment and harm reduction services and ...
Signals from the future: Exploring implications for drug policies
seizing opportunities are marked. The identified insights of high impact for the future EU drug policy area will serve as a precursor for the next research stage in the DRUG- PREP project, which involves ...