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The burden of legionnaires' disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017.
data, data from three infectious disease surveillance systems (mandatory notification, sentinel laboratories and the national reference center), information on reimbursed diagnostic tests from the Belgian ...
Development of a genoserotyping system for the identification of Salmonella serotypes
these techniques which are usually only fully mastered at National Reference Centers (NRC s). Despite the fact that these techniques are implemented worldwide since more than 80 years, they are not fully ...
The burden of legionnaires’ disease in Belgium, 2013 to 2017
sentinel laboratories and the national reference center), information on reimbursed diagnostic tests from the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance and mortality data from the ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
strains are voluntarily sent to the National Reference Center (NRC). Identity confirmation is performed using biochemical assays and serotyping by slide agglutination. Since 2018, according to recent ...
Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in humans in Belgium for the period 2013-2016
Gram-negative bacterium is present worldwide, including Belgium where numerous patients were shown to harbour antibodies against this pathogen as recorded by the Belgian National Reference Center (NRC) for ...
Validation of a Bioinformatics Workflow for Routine Analysis of Whole-Genome Sequencing Data and Related Challenges for Pathogen Typing in a European National Reference Center: as a Proof-of-Concept.
Keersmaecker; Nancy Roosens; Kevin Vanneste Source: Front Microbiol, Volume 10 (2019) Keywords: national reference center Neisseria meningitidis public health VALIDATION whole-genome sequencing Abstract: Despite ...
European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net Belgium)- Report 2017 (Data up to and including 2016)
the National Reference Center (NRC) at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). We observed an increase in antimicrobial resistance for Escherichia coli to third-generation cephalosporins and to ...
A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study.
and Sudan. METHODS: On April 29 and May 30, 2016, the Swiss and German National Mycobacterial Reference Laboratories independently triggered an outbreak investigation after four patients were diagnosed with ...
How robust is ACTIVLIM for the follow-up of activity limitations in patients with neuromuscular diseases?
least once over 2 years in 6 national neuromuscular diseases reference centers. Successive Rasch analyses were conducted in order to investigate the scale validity, reliability, consistency across ...
Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Salmonella Enteritidis PT4 Outbreaks from a National Reference Laboratory's Viewpoint.
egg-related outbreaks of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) were investigated by the Belgian National Reference Laboratory of Foodborne Outbreaks. Both the suspected food ...