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BSFM 2024- Reported food-borne outbreaks in Belgium, 2023
isolated from a bread sample, a swab taken from a work surface and one clinical sample (stool). In the second outbreak, which affected two schools supplied by the same central kitchen, emetic B. cereus and ...
Substandard and falsified ivermectin tablets obtained for self-medication during the COVID-19 pandemic as a source of potential harm.
SF ivermectin samples, intercepted in large quantities by the Belgian regulatory agencies during the period 2021-2022, were analyzed in our official medicines control laboratory. None of the samples (n ...
Influenza like-illness surveillance using a Belgian sentinel network of nursing homes: results of October 2022 onwards
Following a two-year pilot study, an observational sentinel surveillance was initiated in October 2022. A geographically representative sample was established for Belgium using the number of NH beds as ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
hospital’s microbiology laboratoriesand/or infection prevention and control (IPC) teams. Both invasive and non-invasive samples are included and each patientis counted only once per hospitalisation period. ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
Materials and Methods Food samples were collected by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) and analysed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Foodborne outbreaks ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, were classified using the above developed models. 10 out of 12 samples were suggestively found to be positive by binary modelling whereas 11 ...
Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
composite sampling at centralised treatment plants was most common, whereas grab sampling from surface waters, open drains, and pit latrines was more typical in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC ...
Management of tick bites and suspicion of Lyme disease in Belgian primary care: compliance with national guidelines
an online questionnaire. Data from 2015 to 2020 were analyzed. Results: During the study period, 1618 cases were reported. In our sample, 47.9% patients were female and 52.1% male. 74.7% of tick bites ...
Myelogram EQA Programme- Virtual sample development
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Source: EQALM symposium 2021 (2021) Full text language: English Category: Scientific posters, presentations and proceedings FOS Classification: 3.02 Clinical medicine ...
Chemical and toxciological characterization of e-liquid cigarettes
the revised TPD. The samples were examined for the presence of nicotine, nicotine-related impurities, volatile organic compounds, caffeine, taurine and the harmful flavours diacetyl and acetylpropionyl. ...