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Clinical performance of the novel full-genotyping OncoPredict HPV Quantitative Typing assay using the VALGENT framework.
Infections Reproducibility of Results Sensitivity and Specificity Uterine Cervical Dysplasia Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Young adult Abstract: Clinical validation of human papillomavirus (HPV) assays according ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study.
August 2021. We integrated data from four national data sources: the Belgian vaccine register (vaccination status), COVID-19 Healthdata (laboratory test results), DEMOBEL (sociodemographic/socioeconomic ...
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 ...
The Belgian physiotherapy reimbursement criteria for fall prevention fails in screening appropriately fall-prone community-dwelling older adults
positive and negative predictive value and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated to ascertain which algorithm is more accurate. RESULTS: The database included a total of 94 community-dwelling older ...
Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in Belgian nursing homes’ residents during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic
Cross-sectional study was conducted between April 8-May 15, 2020. Data collected included demographics, group category (i.e. staff or resident), symptom status and test result. We retrieved additional data: number ...
Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance.
proportions and types were compared to those that were circulating between 2021 and 2022, using 96,251 sequences of the BGS. RESULTS: SARI surveillance allowed timely detection of the Omicron (BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, ...
Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022
Secondly, adjusted WBE metrics at different lag times were used to predict incident COVID-19 cases. Model selection was based on AIC c minimization. Results: In 3¾0 WWTP s, RNA levels were best explained by ...
Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys
collection modes. This paper describes the methodological choices and results in terms of participation for the COVID-19 health surveys conducted in Belgium. Methods The COVID-19 health surveys refer to ...
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 ...