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Urinary tract infections in nursing home residents: Understanding the epidemiology and the clinical diagnosis and management
Publication Type: Dissertation Authors: Katrien Latour; Jan De Lepeleire; Frank Buntinx; Boudewijn Catry Source: KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, p.168 (2023) ISBN: 9789075828382 Keywords: long-term care facilities; healthcare-associated infections; antimicrob ...
Development of a data-intensive centralized system for surveillance and outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens using whole-genome sequencing
were optimized for time-critical situations such as outbreaks, where providing a quick response facilitates efficient public health intervention, thereby minimizing the clinical and economic impact. ...
Tick-borne diseases in Belgium: The incidence and economic burden of Lyme borreliosis and the occurrence of other tick-borne infections
Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome Tick-borne pathogens Abstract: Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in Europe. The most common clinical manifestation is an erythema migrans, a red ...
Social integration of people with severe mental illness: A challenge for health care systems and policies
factors related to the organisation of services, systems and policies strongly influence the social integration of people with SMI. For better or for worse, social integration is not a clinical outcome, it ...
Development of a genoserotyping system for the identification of Salmonella serotypes
development was to choose the serotypes to be targeted. Eighteen serotypes and their variants were selected based on their occurrence in the legislation, their clinical relevance (invasive serotypes) and their ...
Clinical Evolution and Disease Burden of Cystic Fibrosis Patients after Newborn Screening and Clinical Diagnosis
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Investigations of the relationship between airborne fungal diversity and IgE sensitization, inflammatory responses and asthma
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Vaccine preventable bacterial diseases in Belgium: monitoring of general population immunity and pregnancy vaccination strategies
of pregnancy vaccination strategies. The clinical significance of maternal antibodies interference on infant immune response should be further investigated. Health Topics: Health and disease ...
Fusarium, clinical relevance and mass spectrometry methods for identification, using strains of the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM/IHEM
still a challenge in the current clinical practice, relying upon a morphological examination of a cultured isolate. In the first part of this PhD the focus was on Fusarium, a mold genus causing a wide ...
Innate signaling by mycolate esters of the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and relevance for development of adjuvants for subunit vaccines
any clinical symptoms, although 5 to 10% of these latently infected individuals are at risk to develop TB in their lifetime. During the last decades the situation worsened because of deteriorating ...