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Application of whole genome data for in silico evaluation of primers and probes routinely employed for the detection of viral species by RT-qPCR using dengue virus as a case study.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Viral infection by dengue virus is a major public health problem in tropical countries. Early diagnosis and detection are increasingly based on quantitative reverse transcriptase ...
Annual report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2016
heterozygous. The main reasons for diagnosis of CF are acute or recurrent respiratory problems (42.1%) and failure to thrive (24.4%). About 18.0% were diagnosed via neonatal screening even though Belgium has no ...
Heat and health in Antwerp under climate change: Projected impacts and implications for prevention.
mortality Heatwaves Abstract: BACKGROUND: Excessive summer heat is a serious environmental health problem in several European cities. Heat-related mortality and morbidity is likely to increase under climate ...
Taxonomic annotation of public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment- A report from an April 10-11, 2017 workshop (Aberdeen, UK)
persistent residents – may hold clues to the rising levels of human allergies and other medical and building-related health problems observed globally. The taxonomic identity of these fungi is crucial in such ...
Chemometrical analysis of fingerprints for the detection of counterfeit and falsified medicines
problem.Next, the concept of fingerprinting and the basicprinciples of chemometrics are explained, followed by adescription of the successful application of fingerprints inthe field of Pharmacognosy. The last ...
Development and validation of a TaqMan probe-based real-time PCR method for the differentiation of wild type lumpy skin disease virus from vaccine virus strains.
(LSD) is a transboundary viral disease of cattle with severe economic impact. Immunization of cattle with homologous live attenuated vaccines poses a number of diagnostic problems, as it has been ...
Increasing candidemia incidence from 2004 to 2015 with a shift in epidemiology in patients pre-exposed to antifungals.
Mycoses, Number 7 (2017) Keywords: Antifungal Agents Candida spp. candidaemia epidemiology incidence Abstract: BACKGROUND: Candidemia is an important health problem in immunocompromised patients with an ...
Mapping occurrence of Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis and areas at risk of porcine cysticercosis in Central America and the Caribbean basin.
problems it potentially poses. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Category: A1 FOS Classification: 3.03 Health sciences ...
Chemometrics and chromatographic fingerprints to classify plant food supplements according to the content of regulated plants.
supplements are gaining popularity, resulting in a broader spectrum of available products and an increased consumption. Next to the problem of adulteration of these products with synthetic drugs the presence of ...
Multinomial additive hazard model to assess the disability burden using cross-sectional data.
maximize the multinomial log-likelihood function subject to a linear inequality constraint. Our simulation study indicates overall good performance of the model, without convergence problems. However, the ...