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Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements

commonly encountered in PFS claiming weight-loss as indication. However, PFS usually are composed of mixtures of different plants resulting into a not so straightforward approach for their detection. In ...

Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges

implementation. As with the implementation of any method the validations of the WGS methodology requires a significant effort. Furthermore, the interpretation of the results should be done with care. Therefore, in ...

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 ...

Characterization and hazard identification of substandard and falsified antimicrobials encountered in Belgium

half of the samples were underdosed, resulting in a potential lower efficacy and so may aggravate illness of patients and induce bacterial resistance [2]. Moreover, in order to have an in-depth ...

Comparative dissolution study on substandard and falsified antibiotics encountered in Belgium

Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP), were subjected to dissolution studies. The results indicated that 9 out of 19 illegal samples failed to meet the dissolution limits prescribed by the ...

MALDI-TOF for the identification of Mycobacteria and their drug resistance profiles

BACTEC MGIT results. Moreover, incubation with serial dilutions allowed a correct determination of the Minimal Inhibitory Concentrations of isoniazid and rifampicin. Therefore, this method has the ...

Global transcriptional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using old and new drugs

constructed and sequenced using the HiSeq technology (Illumina®). Reads were mapped to the reference genome and normalized read counts were calculated per gene.   Results: For each drug a specific ...

Global transcriptional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using old and new drugs

(Illumina®). Reads were mapped to the reference genome and normalized read counts were calculated per gene.   Results: For each drug a specific transcriptional response was mapped, revealing lists of up- and ...

National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)

Nosocomial infections Objective ON Patient patients period pilot Pneumonia prevention Primary bloodstream infection protocol Quality RATES report Respiratory result results risk Risk Factors Score study ...

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