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Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
Enteritidis strain linked to the outbreak could be obtained, fully characterized, and related to the food and human isolates from the outbreak in a phylogenetic tree containing other Belgian sporadic cases and ...
The interplay between market concentration and diversity, food environment related commitments and associated practices of major food companies across European, Belgian and French markets
a public health perspective was conducted. Market concentration and diversity, food environment related commitments and associated practices were considered together with policy implications. It was found ...
Development of a data-intensive centralized system for surveillance and outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens using whole-genome sequencing
ciprofloxacin-resistant Shigella within Belgium, successfully linking cases to domestic circulation and travel-related events. We also applied the developed data analysis methods to solve specific questions for various ...
Tick-borne diseases in Belgium: The incidence and economic burden of Lyme borreliosis and the occurrence of other tick-borne infections
incidence of the clinical manifestations of LB, the proportion of patients developing PTLDS and the costs related to the disease. In addition, the occurrence of other tick-borne infections in patients with ...
Social integration of people with severe mental illness: A challenge for health care systems and policies
however, remained relatively low and has not much improved over the past decades. Much research has focused on socially inclusive evidence-based practices and interventions, but this thesis shows that ...
Chemical and toxciological characterization of e-liquid cigarettes
methods were developed for the quantitative determination of nicotine and its related impurities (HPLC- DAD) and for the flavours diacetyl and acetylpropionyl (HS / GC- MS). Also, screening methods were ...
Genotoxic evaluation of the liquids present in electronic cigarettes
formation of hazardous substances related to this process) occurs. However, the absence of the combustion process does not directly imply that the e-cigarette is a healthy substitute compared to the tobacco ...
DETERMINATION OF ALLERGENIC FRAGRANCE INGREDIENTS IN FEMININE ABSORBENT HYGIENE PRODUCTS AND LUBRICANTS
matrix-effect in AHP s was reduced with the use of 1-fluoronapthalene as an internal standard (IS) and matrix-matched calibration for quantification purposes. A relative bias was set at 15%, that was met by each ...
Fusarium, clinical relevance and mass spectrometry methods for identification, using strains of the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM/IHEM
strain information revealed a species, i.e. Fusarium musae, of which it was not yet known that it caused human infections. (ii) A new species, closely related to Fusarium, was described, i.e. ...
Development of molecular tools for rapid detection and quantification of indoor airborne molds to assess their impact on public health
resolution melting (HRM) analysis, providing a proof-of-concept for this approach, using 3 closely related Aspergillus, i.e., A. versicolor, Aspergillus creber and Aspergillus sydowii. This HRM tool will allow ...