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Mental health, compliance with measures and health prospects during the COVID-19 epidemic: the role of health literacy.
results suggest that health literacy is a crucial factor in managing the COVID-19 epidemic and offer a perspective for future studies that target health literacy in the context of virus outbreaks. Service: ...
Application of a strain-level shotgun metagenomics approach on food samples: resolution of the source of a Salmonella food-borne outbreak
Pochet, Brigitte; Vera Cantaert; Marchal, Kathleen; Sarah Denayer; Sigrid C.J. De Keersmaecker Source: Microbial Genomics, Volume 7, Issue 4 (2021) Keywords: food surveillance Metagenomics outbreak ...
Molecular and virological characterization of the first poultry outbreaks of Genotype VII.2 velogenic avian orthoavulavirus type 1 (NDV) in North-West Europe, BeNeLux, 2018.
Serge Losch; Nancy Beerens; Thierry van den Berg; Bénédicte Lambrecht Source: Transbound Emerg Dis, Volume 68, Issue 4 (2021) Keywords: Animals Chickens Disease Outbreaks Europe Genotype Newcastle Disease ...
Coverage of the national surveillance system for human Salmonella infections, Belgium, 2016-2020.
Keersmaecker; Dieter Van Cauteren; Wesley Mattheus Source: PLoS One, Volume 16, Issue 8 (2021) Keywords: Belgium Diagnostic Tests, Routine Disease Outbreaks Humans Public Health Surveillance Salmonella Salmonella ...
Targeted LC-MS/MS combined with multilocus DNA metabarcoding as a combinatory approach to determine the amount and the source of pyrrolizidine alkaloids contamination in popular cooking herbs, seeds, spices and leafy vegetables.
outbreaks due to the consumption of contaminated food. However, only in rare cases has the origin of the contamination been determined. Although their presence has been studied in many matrices, occurrence ...
Determinants of adherence to COVID-19 measures among the Belgian population: an application of the protection motivation theory.
Volume 79, Issue 1 (2021) Abstract: BACKGROUND: Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Belgian government has implemented various infection prevention and control measures. This study assessed the ...
Towards Real-Time and Affordable Strain-Level Metagenomics-Based Foodborne Outbreak Investigations Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Technologies
Sigrid C.J. De Keersmaecker Source: Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 12 (2021) Keywords: Flongle food surveillance Metagenomics nanopore outbreak SNP analysis STEC strain-level Abstract: The current ...
Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of Two Bluetongue Viruses Isolated during the 2020 Outbreak in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
virus serotype 8 (BTV-8) has been considered enzootic in France since 2018. Here, we report the nearly complete genome sequences of two BTV-8 isolates from the 2020 outbreak in the Grand Duchy ...
Targeted LC-MS/MS combined with multilocus DNA metabarcoding as a combinatory approach to determine the amount and the source of pyrrolizidine alkaloids contamination in popular cooking herbs, seeds, spices and leafy vegetables
(PA s) and their corresponding N-oxides (PANO s) are natural protoxins biosynthesised by many plant species and are responsible for occasional fatal intoxication outbreaks due to the consumption of ...
Whole-genome sequencing for TB source investigations: principles of ethical precision public health.
vulnerable patients and communities when otherwise unfairly blamed for TB outbreaks, the precision of WGS can also identify transmission events resulting in social blame, fear, discrimination, individual or ...