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Burden of inflammatory bowel disease in Belgium, 2020
in Belgium was a widespread network of general practitioners. The prevalence of IBD was 1.5% in 2020. The prevalence-based YLD for IBD was 220 YLD s per 100 000, while the YLL rate was 11.5 per 100 ...
Physicochemical characterization and genotoxicity assessment of nanomaterials using new approach methodologies
specific surface area, shape, solubility and dissolution rate, agglomeration state, chemical composition and crystal structure. Data obtained by electron microscopy based methods on the physicochemical ...
FT-IR spectroscopy as a rapid method for Salmonella spp. typing
for conclusions. The classifier’s accuracy is 85.2% at O-group level (84,2% for O:4; 93,3% for O:7; 83,3% for O:9). Serotypes that displayed the higher rate of misclassification were S. Typhimurium ...
10 years of organizing L. monocytogenes enumeration proficiency testing in food matrices at the Belgian national reference laboratory.
rate and the highest case fatality in Europe in 2022 as well as its highest number of food-poisoning ever reported (EFSA One Health report 2022). Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2073/2005 sets down food ...
Possible impact of culture-independent diagnostic techniques on surveillance of gastrointestinal pathogens in Belgium
Campylobacter. The participation rate was 80% (90/113). For STEC, up to 55% of the laboratories are currently using CIDT with an increase to 85% when CIDT will be added to the reimbursement conditions. For the ...
Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals: Results of the 2022 ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
resistance (AMR) pose significant challenges in healthcare systems worldwide, leading to prolonged hospital stays, increased costs, and elevated morbidity and mortality rates. The 2017 European Centre for ...
Exploring anxiety and depression trends: insights from the BELHEALTH cohort 2022-2024 in Belgium
depression rates were lower in October 2022 (13%) compared to February 2023 (14%) and March 2024 (15%). However, the trajectory of mental health varied across demographic subgroups, with worse outcomes ...
Decrease in meningococcal disease mortality following the introduction of MenC vaccine in Belgium
Infectious Diseases (2024) Abstract: Background Invasive meningococcal infections have a high burden of disease, with a case-fatality rate of around 10%. In Belgium, the introduction of the MenC vaccine in ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
history (past 12 months). Results The incidence of MRSA peaked in 2005 (6.3 cases per 1000 admissions; Figure 1), but shows a decreasing trend ever since(2005-2022 incidence rate ratio (IRR)=0.915, 95% CI: ...
Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2022: Results of ECDC Point Prevalence Survey
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contribute to prolonged hospital stays and increased costs, along with elevated morbidity and mortality rates. The 2017 ...