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Trends in Hospital Antibacterial Consumption in Belgium (2017-2021): Evaluating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

denominators, the observed use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials exceeded the forecasted values in 2020, to regress below the forecasted levels in 2021 (Figure 1). Contrary to results obtained using the widely ...

Full Characterisation of Heroin Samples Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration

Volume 29, Issue 5 (2024) Keywords: adulterants; ATR-IR; chemometrics; diacetylmorphine; diluents; mobile detection approaches Abstract: The analysis of heroin samples, before use in the protected ...

Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.

data) and the Common Base Register for HealthCare Actors (individuals licensed to practice a healthcare profession in Belgium). We used multivariable logistic regression analysis for identifying ...

Substandard and falsified ivermectin tablets obtained for self-medication during the COVID-19 pandemic as a source of potential harm.

One of the candidate antiviral medicines tested was ivermectin. Although several health authorities warned the public against the use of this medicine outside clinical trials, the drug was widely used ...

Multicenter interlaboratory study of routine systems for the susceptibility testing of temocillin using a challenge panel of multidrug-resistant strains.

method used as gold standard. Methods’ reproducibility was assessed by testing 3 reference strains in triplicate. A total of 702 organism-drug results were obtained against 33 TMO-susceptible and 14 ...

Attributing Ethiopian animal health losses to high-level causes using expert elicitation

Investigate-Discuss-Estimate-Aggregate protocol for structured expert elicitation, estimates were obtained for the proportion of animal health loss due to high-level causes in different combinations of health loss, species, age-sex ...

Comparing frailty prevalence between countries: validation of the Global Burden of Disease study Frailty Index (GBD-FI) in the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe

generate frailty scores from items available in the Global Burden of Disease study. OBJECTIVE: To externally validate the GBD- FI. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement ...

RNA sequencing of avian paramyxovirus (Paramyxoviridae, Avulavirinae) isolates from wild mallards in Belgium, 2021: complete genomes and coinfections.

Issue 5 (2023) Keywords: Animals Avulavirus Belgium Coinfection Ducks Influenza in Birds Newcastle disease virus Paramyxoviridae Phylogeny Poultry Rna Sequence Analysis, RNA Abstract: We used untargeted ...

Belgian recommendations for analytical verification and validation of immunohistochemical tests in laboratories of anatomic pathology

IVDR classification and the origin) and its intended use (purpose), it addresses how to perform analytical verification/validation by recommending: (i) the number of cases in the validation set, (ii) the ...

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