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Characterization of three commercial ELISA kits for detection of BOHV-1 gE specific antibodies in serum and milk samples and applicability of bulk milk for determination of herd status.
Methods, Volume 245, p.66-72 (2017) Abstract: Vaccination of animals with gE-deleted vaccine strains (gE- marker vaccines) and differential detection of vaccinated vs infected animals with antibody ELISA ...
Imported human brucellosis in Belgium: Bio and molecular typing of bacterial isolates, 1996-2015.
origin of each strain when patient history and risk factors were missing, and to survey for particular trends at the national level. METHODS: A total of 37 Brucella strains, isolated from 37 patients in ...
Exploring the Diversity of Field Strains of Brucella abortus Biovar 3 Isolated in West Africa.
required both at national and regional level to assess potential threats for public health. Highly discriminative genotyping methods such as the multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis ...
Validation of a particle tracking analysis method for the size determination of nano- and microparticles.
attempts have so far been made to investigate and quantify the performance of the PTA method for particle size analysis. This article presents the results of a validation study during which selected ...
Development and performance assessment of a luminex xMAP® direct hybridization assay for the detection and identification of indoor air fungal contamination.
species identified with the classical method were also detected with the xMAP® assay, however in a shorter time frame. These results demonstrate that the Luminex xMAP® fungal assay developed in this study ...
Molecular Subtyping of Salmonella Typhimurium with Multiplex Oligonucleotide Ligation-PCR (MOL-PCR).
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Wuyts, Véronique; Wesley Mattheus; Nancy Roosens; Marchal, Kathleen; Sophie Bertrand; Sigrid C.J. De Keersmaecker Source: Methods Mol ...
The HUMTICK study: protocol for a prospective cohort study on post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome and the disease and cost burden of Lyme borreliosis in Belgium.
different clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in Belgium. METHODS: The project is a prospective cohort study in which about 600 patients with an erythema migrans and 100 patients with disseminated ...
First HIV prevalence estimates of a representative sample of adult sub-Saharan African migrants in a European city. Results of a community-based, cross-sectional study in Antwerp, Belgium.
prevention and public health policy. METHODS: This community-based, cross-sectional study combined oral fluid HIV testing with an electronic behavioral survey. Adopting a two-stage time location sampling HIV ...
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus Continuum of Care in European Union Countries in 2013: Data and Challenges.
epidemic by 2020, but methods used to assess whether countries have reached this target are not standardized, hindering comparisons. METHODS.: Through a collaboration formed by the European Centre for ...
Is a Health Interview Survey an appropriate tool to assess domestic violence?
Methods: Cross-sectional data from the Belgian HIS 2013 were analysed. A question whether the perpetrator of a violent event was a member of the respondents’ household was embedded in a general topic on ...