Résultats de la recherche - 232 results
Chemical and toxciological characterization of e-liquid cigarettes
diacetyl vapours. However, the risk for local lung toxicity (lung tissue lesions associated with chronic pulmonary bronchiolitis obliterans) could not be excluded in case of repeated exposure to diacetyl ...
Adjusting for comorbidity in incidence-based DALY calculations: an individual-based modeling approach
straightforward if all symptoms have same onset and duration; however, when the comorbid health states occur at different time points, an analytical solution to the comorbidity problem becomes more complex. The aim ...
Population vulnerability to COVID-19 in Europe: a burden of disease analysis
countries in Europe. YLD was restricted to a list of specific health conditions associated with being at risk of developing severe consequences from COVID-19 based on guidance from the United Kingdom ...
Strategy for the identification of micro-organisms producing food and feed products: Bacteria producing food enzymes as study case
regulations require safety assessments of food enzymes (FE) before their commercialization. FE are mainly produced by micro-organisms, whose viable strains nor associated DNA can be present in the final ...
Detection strategy targeting a chloramphenicol resistance gene from genetically modified bacteria in food and feed products
associated recombinant DNA. Although the use of AMR genes gives rise to public health and environmental concerns regarding their potential acquisitions by pathogens and gut microbiota, no method targeting AMR ...
Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
Van Hal, Guido Source: BMC Med Res Methodol, Volume 19, Issue 1:212 (2019) Keywords: health interview survey Item non-response Mixed-mode Self-administered questionnaire Unit response Web Abstract: ...
Imported malaria and artemisinin-based combination therapy failure in travellers returning to Belgium: A retrospective study.
polymorphisms in drug resistance-associated genes pfk13, pfcrt, pfmdr1, pfpm2, pfap2mu and pfubp1 were determined by sequencing or quantitative PCR. RESULTS: Annual malaria cases steadily increased in the last ...
Estimates of the 2015 global and regional disease burden from four foodborne metals- arsenic, cadmium, lead and methylmercury
attention on acute diseases associated with infectious foodborne agents. Four articles in this special section describe in detail the burden of disease from foodborne lead, methylmercury, arsenic, and ...
Migration of mineral oil from cardboard packaging for food: Identification of the hazards and assessment of the exposure of the Belgian population
insights in the possible health risks associated with MOAH exposure. Based on these scenarios, adverse human health effects could not be excluded highlighting the need for more data to perform a more ...
Human psittacosis: a review with emphasis on surveillance in Belgium.
psittacosis in humans, mainly in persons in contact with birds in either the setting of occupational or companion bird exposure. Infection is associated with a range of clinical manifestations from asymptomatic ...