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Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study.
male infant. The first clinical examination was reassuring, but after a few hours, his general state deteriorated. A blood test and a lumbar puncture were therefore performed. The cerebrospinal fluid ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
a documented COVID-19 infection) factors associated with the first and second booster uptake. Methods We used individually-linked data from the Belgian COVID-19 vaccine registry and the COVID-19 test database to ...
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 ...
Towards a new (H)ERA: Developments to strengthen infectious diseases surveillance and pandemic preparedness
combination with conventional testing and epidemiological data integrated genomic-epidemiological analyses can be performed. Therefore, we designed Be- HERA as an overarching architecture to strengthen the ...
Interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness: six European studies, October 2022 to January 2023.
settings.MethodsAll studies used the test-negative design, but with differences in other study characteristics, such as data sources, patient selection, case definitions and included age groups. Overall and influenza ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
data from the Belgian COVID-19 vaccine registry and the COVID-19 test database to determine booster uptake among the 18+ Belgian population having completed the primary vaccination course (PC). We ...
Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Humboldt Penguins—Susceptibility Patterns andMolecular Epidemiology of Clinical and Environmental Aspergillus fumigatus Isolates from a Belgian Zoo
3 (2023) Keywords: antifungal susceptibility testing Aspergillus fumigatus avian aspergillosis azole resistance cyp51A genotyping MIC microsatellite typing One Health Spheniscus humboldti Abstract: ...
Towards clinical breakpoints for non-tuberculous mycobacteria- Determination of epidemiological cut off values for the Mycobacterium avium complex and Mycobacterium abscessus using broth microdilution.
their importance for establishing antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) breakpoints. METHODS: We gathered MIC distributions for drugs used against the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) and ...
HPV-based Cervical Cancer Screening on Self-samples in the Netherlands: Challenges to Reach Women and Test Performance Questions.
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Abstract: In 2017, cervical cancer screening in the Netherlands switched from cytology to human papillomavirus (HPV) testing using the validated PCR-based cobas 4800. Women could ...
Validation of a rapid SARS-CoV-2 antibody test in general practice
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Domen, Julie; Verbakel, Jan Yvan Jos; Adriaenssens, Niels; Scholtes, Beatrice; Peeters, Bart; Bruyndonckx, Robin; De Sutter, An; Heytens, Stefan; Van den Bruel, Ann; I Desombere; Van Damme, Pierr ...