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Time-and-motion tool for the assessment of working time in tuberculosis laboratories: a multicentre study.

tool can be considered a universal and objective methodology contributing to workload assessment in TB diagnostic laboratories. Comparison of workload between laboratories could help laboratory managers ...

Clinical burden of hepatitis E virus infection in a tertiary care center in Flanders, Belgium.

tertiary care center in Flanders, Belgium. STUDY DESIGN: In the setting of Ghent University Hospital, patients were assessed for the presence of HEV IgG and IgM as well as HEV RNA if no other cause was found ...

European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net Belgium)- Report 2017 (Data up to and including 2016)

the National Reference Center (NRC) at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). We observed an increase in antimicrobial resistance for Escherichia coli to third-generation cephalosporins and to ...

A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study.

shared mutation of tlyA is a drug resistance mutation and phylogenetic marker, the first of its kind in M tuberculosis sensu stricto. FUNDING: The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, the University of ...

Taxonomic annotation of public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment- A report from an April 10-11, 2017 workshop (Aberdeen, UK)

sequences. Here we report on a taxonomic annotation workshop (April 10–11, 2017) organized at the James Hutton Institute/University of Aberdeen (UK) to facilitate reproducible studies of the built mycobiome. ...

Monitoring of Laboratory-Acquired Infections

legislation Monitoring Abstract: In laboratories of universities, hospitals, research institutes and companies, activities are carried out on, and with micro-organisms that have a diverse ability to cause ...

“Why do they want my data?”–Cancer patients' views on the use of genomic information in health care

Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Wannes Van Hoof; K Moens Source: European Journal of Public Health, Oxford University Press, Volume 28, Issue suppl_4, p.cky213- 368 ...

Increasing candidemia incidence from 2004 to 2015 with a shift in epidemiology in patients pre-exposed to antifungals.

pharmacy, respectively. RESULTS: From 2004 until 2015, 865 candidemia episodes occurred in 826 patients at the University Hospitals Leuven. Candida albicans (59%) remained the most important cause of candidemia, followed ...

Pregnancy outcome after cervical conisation: A 2nd retrospective cohort study in the Leuven University Hospital.

pregnancy; dimensions of the cone; severity of the lesion; and the extra resection of endocervical tissue were collected. These data were compared with those from a previous similar study at the University ...

Hepatitis E virus serology and PCR: does the methodology matter?

of six serological assays and three PCR assays for the detection of HEV was evaluated. In the setting of the Ghent University Hospital, patients with clinically suspected HEV infection were tested for ...

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