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Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis.
years reported; virus results among residents in well-defined geographical locations; and aggregated virus results at least on a monthly basis. Data were extracted through a three-stage process, from ...
Prevalence and seasonality of six respiratory viruses during five consecutive epidemic seasons in Belgium.
18-64y and ≥65y. RESULTS: Children <6y had the highest infection rates (39% positive vs. 20% positive adults) and the highest frequency of co-infections. hRSV (28%) and IAV (32%) caused the most common ...
Integrative transnational analysis to dissect tuberculosis transmission events along the migratory route from Africa to Europe.
strains. Infections in a cellular model were performed to assess strain virulence. RESULTS: MIRU- VNTR analysis allowed identifying an epidemiological cluster involving three of the eight cases from Somalia ...
In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores- Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers.
of BMI z-scores were investigated with adjusted linear mixed models. RESULTS: The geometric means of placental MeP, EtP, PrP, and BuP levels above the limit of detection (LOD) were 4.42, 1.32, 1.51, ...
The Isolation of Culturable Bacteria in Ticks of a Belgian Peri-Urban Forest Uncovers Opportunistic Bacteria Potentially Important for Public Health.
collections and analyses of ticks of different species, from various areas and using other bacterial identification methods would strengthen these results. However, they highlight the importance of ticks as ...
Unit Response and Costs in Web Versus Face-To-Face Data Collection: Comparison of Two Cross-sectional Health Surveys.
a completed F2F questionnaire. RESULTS: The unit response rate is lower in BHISWEB (18.0%) versus BHISF2F (43.1%). A lower response rate was observed for the web survey among all sociodemographic groups, but ...
Whole-genome-based phylogenomic analysis of the Belgian 2016-2017 influenza A(H3N2) outbreak season allows improved surveillance.
surveillance is critical for providing information to national influenza programmes and for making vaccine composition predictions. Vaccination prevents viral infections, but rapid influenza evolution results in ...
Automated digital reporting of clinical laboratory information to national public health surveillance systems, results of a EU/EEA survey, 2018.
of microbiology test results is essential for infection management. Automated, machine-to-machine (M2M) reporting of diagnostic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data from laboratory information ...
Prevalence of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Potential Determinants among the Belgian Adult Population: Baseline Results of a Prospective Cohort Study.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: V Leclercq; Nayema Van den Houte; Lydia Gisle; Inge Roukaerts; Cyril Barbezange; I Desombere; Els Duysburgh; Johan Van der Heyden Source: Viruses, Volume 14, Issue 5 (2022) Keywords: Adult Antibo ...
Benchmarking the nutrition-related commitments and practices of major French food companies.
Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. RESULTS: Among the selected food companies, 13 companies verified and completed the publicly available data (response rate = 39%). Overall BIA-Obesity scores for ...