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Inhibition of MALT1 decreases neuroinflammation and pathogenicity of virulent rabies virus in mice.
Steven Van Gucht; Beyaert, R Source: J Virol (2018) Abstract: Rabies virus is a neurovirulent RNA virus, which causes about 59000 human deaths each year. Treatment for rabies does not exist due to ...
Neonatal factors predictive for respiratory and gastro-intestinal morbidity after esophageal atresia repair.
patients born between 1993 and 2013, with esophageal atresia and surviving the neonatal period were included in this retrospective study. A complicated clinical course was defined as the occurrence of ≥1 of ...
Activity-Based Detection and Bioanalytical Confirmation of a Fatal Carfentanil Intoxication.
department admissions and deaths. Here, we report on the application of a novel opioid activity reporter assay and a sensitive bioanalytical assay in the context of a fatal carfentanil intoxication, revealing ...
Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015.
From 2009 to 2015, 110 cases were notified to the Pedisurv network with a mean annual notification rate of 0.8/100,000 in children < 15 years. Death occurred in 2.5% of all patients and the median ...
The use of the permanent sample (eps) to study the returnto- work after cancer. Challenges and opportunities for research
We observe during a five-year period the socio-professional status (inability, disability, unemployment or death) of 645 workers identified in the permanent sample (EPS), having had an oncological ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
mortality and animal welfare. This article introduces a novel metric, the Welfare-Adjusted Life Year (WALY), to estimate disease impact by combining welfare compromise and premature death components. Adapting ...
Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomaviruses to prevent cervical cancer and its precursors.
Although the number of deaths is low overall, there were more deaths among women older than 25 years who received the vaccine. The deaths reported in the studies have been judged not to be related to the ...
Annual report Belgian Cystic Fibrosis Registry 2016
national neonatal screening program so far. Within the year, eight deaths were reported (four of them in transplanted patients) with age at death ranging from 20.5 to 44.8 years while 17 patients benefitted ...
Palliative care service use by older people: Time trends from a mortality follow-back study between 2005 and 2014.
was initiated. RESULTS: General practitioners identified 5344 deaths. Overall, palliative care service use increased from 39% in 2005 to 63% in 2014 (p < 0.001). The use of a reference person for palliative ...
Attribution of global foodborne disease to specific foods: Findings from a World Health Organization structured expert elicitation
foodborne diseases (FBD s) resulted in over 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths worldwide in 2010. Knowing the relative role importance of different foods as exposure routes for key hazards is critical ...