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Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020
cysticercosis for Burundi’s population. We urge policy makers to use these evidence-based results and put T. solium cysticercosis on the public health agenda of the country. This study recommends urgent action to ...
Strategy and Performance Evaluation of Low-Frequency Variant Calling for SARS-CoV-2 Using Targeted Deep Illumina Sequencing
consensus genome sequence of the most abundant strain is taken into consideration for analysis, but multiple variant strains are now circulating in the population. Consequently, in diagnostic samples, ...
Prevalence of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Potential Determinants among the Belgian Adult Population: Baseline Results of a Prospective Cohort Study
Viruses, Volume 14, Issue 5 (2022) Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; antibodies; seroprevalence; cohort; population-based study; Belgium Abstract: The prevalence of anti- SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and potential ...
Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L, 2018
the Belgian Health Interview Survey, providing a new source of population-based self-perceived health status information. This study aims to estimate Belgian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L by sex, ...
Evaluation of dog vaccination schemes against rabies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
based on annual mass vaccination of dogs appears to be costly and cumbersome. Given the existence of different risk zones for rabies transmission, the present study aimed at proposing risk-based ...
COVID-19 and people who use drugs: Impact of the pandemic on general anxiety and depressive disorders among adults in Belgium.
a matched cohort design based on two separate repeated cross-sectional online surveys (April and November 2020) among PWUD and the general population. Results of GAD-7 and PHQ-9 were used as outcome ...
Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general population in Belgium: First results of the SalivaHIS study
p.80 (2021) Accession Number: D/2021/14.440/86 Keywords: antibodies COVID-19 health determinants population-based Seroprevalence Abstract: Key findings In the beginning of July 2021 78.1% of the ...
The prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 study (PICOV) in nursing home residents and staff- study protocol description and presentation of preliminary findings on symptoms.
caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has presented itself as one of the most important health concerns of the 2020’s, and hit the geriatric population the hardest. ...
Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Grass and Birch Pollen in Belgium
the burden of allergic respiratory diseases. In Europe, a quarter of the population suffers from pollinosis, whereas in some countries the prevalence is over 40%. To date, pollen of various trees and ...
Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies.
This study aimed to estimate the point-prevalence of chlamydia in the broader Belgian population, to inform evidence-based prevention and control strategies. METHODS: We conducted two cross-sectional ...