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The association between area deprivation and COVID-19 incidence: a municipality-level spatio-temporal study in Belgium, 2020–2021

between COVID-19 incidence and area deprivation during the first five wave and interwave periods, thus adding a temporal gradient to the analyses. Methods We use all confirmed COVID-19 cases between March ...

Post COVID-19 condition and its physical, mental and social implications: protocol of a 2-year longitudinal cohort study in the Belgian adult population

the factors associated with an (un) favorable evolution. Methods: COVIMPACT is a longitudinal cohort study organised over a two-years period between April 2021 and April 2023. The eligible population is ...

QALY losses for chronic diseases and its social distribution in the general population: results from the Belgian Health Interview Survey

Methods. The Belgian Health Interview Survey 2013 and 2018 provided data on self-reported chronic conditions for a nationally representative sample. The annual QALY loss per 100,000 individuals was ...

Strategy and Performance Evaluation of Low-Frequency Variant Calling for SARS-CoV-2 Using Targeted Deep Illumina Sequencing

pathogenicity and immune escape. Targeted SARS-CoV-2 sequencing of diagnostic and wastewater samples has been explored as an epidemiological surveillance method for the competent authorities. Currently, only the ...

Preliminary evaluation of different methods to detect and quantify Taenia eggs in sludge and water samples: A spiking experiment to assess recovery efficiency

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Sophie De Bock; Inge Van Damme; Ganna Saelens; Zeng, Hang; Sandra Vangeenberghe; Gabriël, Sarah Source: Food and Waterborne Parasitology, Volume 28 (2022) Health Topics:  Health and disease monit ...

Unravelling data for rapid evidence-based response to COVID-19: a summary of the unCoVer protocol.

epidemiological research questions arising from the evolving pandemic. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, partners are gathering RWD from electronic health records currently including ...

Strategy to Develop and Evaluate a Multiplex RT-ddPCR in Response to SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Evolution.

assays during and after the development of the assays. Besides this first essential in silico evaluation, a minimal set of testing was proposed to generate experimental evidence on the method performance, ...

One year of laboratory-based COVID-19 surveillance system in Belgium: main indicators and performance of the laboratories (March 2020-21).

performance of the laboratories, regarding speed of processing the samples and reporting results, for surveillance. METHODS: We describe the evolution of test capacity, testing strategy and the data collection ...

Predictors of neutralizing antibody response to BNT162b2 vaccination in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.

to be elucidated. METHODS: Forty allo- HCT recipients were included in a study of immunization with BNT162 b2 mRNA vaccine at days 0 and 21. Binding antibodies (Ab) to SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding ...

Reduced humoral immune response after BNT162b2 coronavirus disease 2019 messenger RNA vaccination in cancer patients under antineoplastic treatment.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: In this interventional prospective multicohort study, priming and booster doses of the BNT162 b2 COVID-19 vaccine were administered 21 days apart to solid tumor patients receiving ...

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