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Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022

the Health Belief Model). We included questions on demographic variables;  knowledge;  perceptions, self-efficacy and cues to actions (Likert scales); and  preventive measures. We assigned knowledge ...

Belgian general practitioners’ perception and use of physical activity on prescription

GP s between January and end of March 2023. The survey has 41 (ordinal or multiple choice) questions. Descriptive statistics were performed. Results 134 GP s completed the survey of which 56% were ...

chromatographic fingerprinting for the detection of herbal adulteration and herbal fraud in plant food supplements

but also the evolution towards self-medication, the questioning of allopathic medicines and the misperception that “natural” and “herbal” stand synonym for “safe” play a role (Rocha et al, 2016). The ...

Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health

identify all biological material in a sample without a priori knowing what to look for, could transform the way specific key public health questions can be addressed, in a ONE Health context. Metagenomics is ...

Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines

serology. Only symptomatic confirmed cases require prescription of antibiotics. Research questions: The objective is to assess GP ’s compliance with 2017 Belgian national guidelines regarding tick bite and ...

Detection of regulated and prohibited plants in plant food supplements

chromatographic profile of the targeted plant in the mixture and classify it as positive or negative for the targeted plant.   For this first topic of the break-out session on herbals, the questions that are ...

Brief assessment of (in)direct questions on domestic/partner violence in the Belgian HIS 2013-2018

(indirect) related questions as an appropriate tool to assess domestic and partner violence in the general population. A more direct approach in the HIS 2018 will be compared with the HIS 2013 ...

Human absorption of silver ENM: through particles or ions?

https://brussels.setac.org/ Keywords: Absorption Nanoparticles Silver Abstract: One of the many questions in the human risk assessment of metallic engineered nanomaterials (ENM) such as silver ENM is whether these ENM dissolve ...

Data analysis associated with the use of whole genome sequencing for subtyping of pathogenic microorganisms, Salmonella Typhimurium as a case study

However, it is still a largely unresolved question how to convert WGS data into information of sufficient quality to be reliably used for epidemiological characterization and discrimination, including the ...

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