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Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium
were used. Results The vast majority of patients included were male (72%). Ulcers in men were deeper, more frequently displaying probe to bone, and more frequently deeply infected. Twice as many men presented ...
Homologous and Heterologous Prime-Boost Vaccination: Impact on Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Infection among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Belgium
prime-boost vaccination schedule, and this difference was not significantly modified by the Omicron sub-lineage. Our results support evidence that mRNA booster vaccination reduced the risk of severe COVID-19 ...
HPV-based Cervical Cancer Screening on Self-samples in the Netherlands: Challenges to Reach Women and Test Performance Questions.
Although population differences may partially explain these results, self-samples may have been too dilute, thereby reducing the analytic and clinical sensitivity. The Dutch findings demonstrate the ...
Comparison of Serological Methods for Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus-Specific Antibody Detection in Wild Boar and Sheep: Impact of the Screening Approach on the Estimated Seroprevalence.
(TBEV) IgG All Species (Progen) and ID Screen West Nile Competition (Innovative Diagnostics)) and PRNT s for TBEV and USUTU virus. The results showed that the Immunozym and IDS creen ELISA s had low ...
Predicting the severity of the grass pollen season and the effect of climate change in Northwest Europe
guidance addressing these questions. We propose two previously unexplored approaches for forecasting the severity of the grass pollen season on the basis of statistical and mechanistic models. The results ...
Burden of disease among older adults in Europe-trends in mortality and disability, 1990-2019
diseases and injuries. RESULTS: Between 1990 and 2019, the crude numbers of DALY s for all causes increased substantially among older Western Europeans. In Eastern Europe, the absolute DALY s also increased ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
the STEC strain from the endogenous E.coli strains while an Illumina MiSeq run takes 48 hours. Moreover, the lower-cost Flongle flow cell showed the same results after 24 hours of sequencing when using ...
Environmental degradation and the increasing burden of allergic disease: The need to determine the impact of nitrogen pollution
Environmental Pollution epidemiology Nitrogen deposition Pollen allergy respiratory health Abstract: Allergic diseases are a major public health problem and their burden is expected to keep increasing as a result ...
Combined Phylogeographic Analyses and Epidemiologic Contact Tracing to Characterize Atypically Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H3N1) Epidemic, Belgium, 2019.
strongly correlated with the phylogeographic pattern of the epidemic. We detected only a limited association between wind direction and direction of viral lineage dispersal. Our results highlight the ...
Clinical Evolution and Disease Burden in Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Patients: effect of Newborn Screening?
Belgian CF Registry report of 2016 including patients diagnosed between January 2006 and December 2016. Results: 306 CF patients were enrolled. Age at diagnosis was the lowest in MI patients (median 0.12 ...