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Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022
levels (low, medium or high depending on number of correct answers) and scores for perceptions, self-efficacy, cues to action and preventive measures. Results We included 776 participants (62% females), of ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
and year. Significant differences (p<.05) of the association between overweight and SES 1997 is assessed through logistic regression controlled for age and sex using 1997 as reference year. Results ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
history before or after completion PC (based on PCR tests). We used a quasibinomial logistic regression model to determine influential factors on the booster uptake. Results Among the Belgian adult ...
A new data collection system for Epilabo: the network of sentinel laboratories
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of having a robust, digital system for timely data collection of laboratory test results at the national level in the context of surveillance of ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
determine influential factors on the booster uptake. Results Among the Belgian adult population (N = 9270186), the coverages reached on the 31st January 2023 were 72.65% and 40.85% for the first and second ...
Resilient health systems: harnessing health information to improve population health
across European borders and ensuring comparability of data and indicators proved to be difficult in a timely manner during the COVID-19 crisis. This resulted in a European landscape with different national ...
Preparedness & response for emergency situations: joined forces of H2020 projects in the PREPARE cluster
tackling challenges specifically looking at the preparedness and response phases of crisis management and working together they aim to achieve stronger results and greater impact their cause. Together CO- ...
Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines
an online questionnaire. Data from 2015 to 2020 were analyzed. Results: During the study period, 1618 cases were reported. In our sample, 47.9% patients were female and 52.1% male. 74.7% of tick bites ...
RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
I will present the results, showing that following a biomarker set of 5 responsive genes and 3 normalizing genes enables to distinguish low- and high resistant Mtb strains after an incubation step of ...
Molecular and clinical investigation of Zika virus outbreak in New Caledonia
Molecular neurological non-invasive ON outbreak outbreak investigation pathogen public public health Public-health region result results Rna Sample Samples SENSITIVITY serum Spread strain time urine VIRUS WHO ...