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A Practical Method to Implement Strain-Level Metagenomics-Based Foodborne Outbreak Investigation and Source Tracking in Routine.
characterization as well as tracing the origin of the contamination by linking the food isolate with the patient’s isolate with high resolution. However, the isolation of a bacterial pathogen from food matrices is ...
The health and economic impact of acute gastroenteritis in Belgium, 2010-2014
published data. We estimated the burden of illness during a 5-year period (2010-2014) in Belgium in terms of deaths, patients admitted to hospitals, patients consulting their general practitioner (GP) and ...
An awkward fishing expedition
Belgica, Volume 69 n° 2 (2018) Keywords: histamine fish poisoning Kounis syndrome Abstract: We report the case of a patient, among a group of five, in a small outbreak of histamine fish poisoning (HFP). The ...
Food-Borne Outbreak Investigation and Molecular Typing: High Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Importance of Toxin Detection
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and enterotoxin gene typing, confirmed the link between patients and the suspected foodstuffs. This also demonstrated the high diversity of CPS isolates both in the cases ...
Comorbidities and factors associated with central nervous system infections and death in non-perinatal listeriosis: a clinical case series
comorbid condition. The main comorbidities were cancer, renal and severe cardio-vascular diseases. Twenty-nine patients (45 %) suffered from a CNS infection and 14 patients (22 %) died during ...