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BSFM 2024- Reported food-borne outbreaks in Belgium, 2023
resulted in the detection of a pathogen. This highlights the importance of rigorous sampling of suspected food and environmental samples and the added value of microbiological results for foodborne ...
Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges
prepared using a self-tasking mandate and published after public consultation. The added value of WGS for the detection of foodborne outbreaks and bacterial risk assessment has been demonstrated on many ...
Annual Report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2018
in 2018, among them five adults, with a median age at diagnosis of 9.8 months and age range from birth to 70.6 years. All the newly diagnosed patients were genotyped; 18 had sweat chloride values > ...
Surveillance environnementale des Poliovirus en Belgique- Etude de faisabilité
(GSK Rixensart et Fri-pharma), renforce l’importance de disposer d’un tel outil. La plus-value d’une surveillance environnementale réside aussi dans sa complémentarité à la surveillance actuelle. Elle ...
Annual Report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2017
genotyped; 34 had sweat chloride values > 60 mmol/L. Among the patients followed-up in 2017, 51.8% were male and 62.2% adults, and the median age was 22.8 years. Interestingly, at the start of the registry, ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
the fluctuating annual incidence. Antibiotic resistance to antimicrobials remains a rare event among L. monocytogenes isolates, although a significant increase of MIC 50 and MIC 90 values for ...
Evaluation of a TEM based Approach for Size Measurement of Particulate (Nano)materials
agglomeration state. The measurement of the median value of the minimal external particle diameter distribution was intra-laboratory validated. The validation study included an assessment of the limit of ...
Annual report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2016
newly diagnosed patients were genotyped; while 22 had sweat chloride values > 60 mmol/L. Among the patients in follow-up in 2016, 52.0% were male and 61.2% adults with a median age of 22.5 years. This ...
Biological activity conferred by endocrine disrupting chemicals in hospital effluent and river water from the Brussels Region, Belgium
assess endocrine activity by comparing the mixture or cocktail effect originating from the sample extract. Added value is that this technique picks up effects from compounds that are not ...
Travelling-wave ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry as an alternative strategy for screening of multi-class pesticides in fruits and vegetables.
showed that drift time values are not influenced by the matrix and also are independent of the concentration within the working range for 100 pesticides tested, making drift time a powerful additional ...