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Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Belgian nursing homes’ residents during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic
more dependent residents (Incidence rate ratio (IRR): 1.97; 95% CI: 1.00-3.86) and higher staff’s infection rate (IRR: 1.89; 95% CI: 1.68- 2.12). No relationship was found between other investigated NH ...
Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance.
Baele, Guy; Dellicour, Simon; Cuypers, Lize; André, Emmanuel; Couvreur, Simon; Brondeel, Ruben; Cyril Barbezange *; Bossuyt, Nathalie; Steven Van Gucht Source: Influenza Other Respir Viruses, Volume 17, ...
Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys
a series of ten non-probability web surveys organized between April 2020 and March 2022. The applied recruitment strategies were diverse including, amongst others, a launch through the website and the social ...
Virological surveillance report of the NRC influenza for season 2021-2022
intensively circulate during the whole period with several epidemic waves occurring throughout the season. Respiratory syncytial virus was not responsible for a true epidemic wave this season. Other respiratory ...
Virological surveillance of influenza in Belgium, season 2019-2020
Respiratory samples were also analysed for other respiratory viruses. In the ILI population, 70 % of the patients were positive for at least one respiratory virus (including Influenza and co-infections). In ...
Risk Factors Associated with Severe RSV Infection in Infants: What Is the Role of Viral Co-Infections?
which 91.7% were RSV positive; 42.5% of RSV-positive patients had a co-infection with at least one other respiratory virus. We found that patients suffering from a single RSV infection had higher ...
A global genomic analysis of Salmonella Concord reveals lineages with high antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopia.
(S. Concord) is known to cause severe gastrointestinal and bloodstream infections in patients from Ethiopia and Ethiopian adoptees, and occasional records exist of S. Concord linked to other countries. ...
A new data collection system for Epilabo: the network of sentinel laboratories
Nominative or pseudonymized data are processed according to the legal mandate of different stakeholders. Linkage with other data sets is performed through a recoded national identification of social security ...
Interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness: six European studies, October 2022 to January 2023.
settings.MethodsAll studies used the test-negative design, but with differences in other study characteristics, such as data sources, patient selection, case definitions and included age groups. Overall and influenza ...
Targeted Chromosomal Barcoding Establishes Direct Genotype-Phenotype Associations for Antibiotic Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus.
infections caused by microorganisms. On the other hand, infections caused by affect people with chronic lung diseases, and their incidence has grown alarmingly in recent years. Further, these bacteria are ...