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Combined carbon and health taxes outperform single-purpose information or fiscal measures in designing sustainable food policies
and health challenges. Yet, the extent to which policy-induced changes in the patterns of food demand address these challenges remains poorly understood. Using a survey-based, randomized controlled ...
Vaccine Hesitancy towards the COVID-19 Vaccine in a Random National Sample of Belgian Nursing Home Staff Members
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Marina Digregorio; Pauline Van Ngoc; Simon Delogne; Eline Meyers; Deschepper, Ellen; Els Duysburgh; Liselore De Rop; Tine De Burghgraeve; Anja Coen; Nele De Clercq; An De Sutter; Jan Y. Verbakel; ...
Pre-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among staff and residents of nursing homes in Flanders (Belgium) in fall 2020
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) IgG antibodies, using dried blood spots, was determined in October–November 2020, among residents and staff randomly selected from 20 nursing homes (NH) geographically distributed in ...
Metagenomic sequencing determines complete infectious bronchitis virus (avian Gammacoronavirus) vaccine strain genomes and associated viromes in chicken clinical samples.
Volume 57, Issue 6 (2021) Abstract: Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV, genus Gammacoronavirus) causes an economically important and highly contagious disease in chicken. Random primed RNA sequencing was ...
Different Effects of a School-Based Physical Activity Intervention on Health-related Quality of Life
Well-being in School, targeted PE lessons, in-class activities, and physical activities during recess. It was evaluated in a cluster-randomized design and included students from 4 to 6th grade at 24 Danish ...
Prevalence estimates of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Belgium: results from two cross-sectional studies.
prevalence studies of chlamydia infection in the population of Belgium aged 16-59 years, 2018-2020. In the CT1 study 12,000 representative individuals were randomly selected from the national register and ...
Association between Implementation and Effect in the Randomized Controlled Trial “Move for Well-Being in School”
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Søren Smedegaard; Christiansen, Lars Breum; Ruben Brondeel; Thomas Skovgaard Source: Advances in Physical Education, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2021) Manuscript versions: DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/ ...
HPV DNA genotyping, HPV E6*I mRNA detection, and p16INK4a/Ki-67 staining in Belgian head and neck cancer patient specimens, collected within the HPV-AHEAD study
hypopharyngeal (HC), and 36 unspecified parts of the head and neck. All specimens were tested for HPV DNA (21 genotypes); whereof all HPV DNA-positives, all HPV DNA-negative OPC s and a random subset of HPV ...
Bluetongue Virus Infections in Cattle Herds of Manabí Province of Ecuador
for the first time, the presence of active BTV infections in Manabí province. We collected 430 serum samples from 38 randomly selected farms between March and July 2019 to perform BTV competitive ELISA. ...
Organisation of Multi-Mycotoxin Proficiency Tests: Evaluation of the Performances of the Laboratories Using the Triple A Rating Approach
prepared in house. The homogeneity and the stability of these materials were verified according to the criteria laid down in ISO 13528 using randomly selected samples. Most of the targeted toxins were found ...