Résultats de la recherche - 74 results
Eight years after an international workshop on myotonic dystrophy patient registries: case study of a global collaboration for a rare disease.
therapeutic programmes. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance de la santé et des maladies Ziekten en gezondheid in kaart brengen Service: Étude des soins de santé Gezondheidszorgonderzoek Health ...
Application of whole genome data for in silico evaluation of primers and probes routinely employed for the detection of viral species by RT-qPCR using dengue virus as a case study.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Viral infection by dengue virus is a major public health problem in tropical countries. Early diagnosis and detection are increasingly based on quantitative reverse transcriptase ...
Relationship between mold exposure, specific IgE sensitization, and clinical asthma: A case-control study.
indoor mold contamination among mold-sensitized patients with asthma and nonsensitized patients with asthma. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted and several asthma severity markers were compared ...
An awkward fishing expedition
Belgica, Volume 69 n° 2 (2018) Keywords: histamine fish poisoning Kounis syndrome Abstract: We report the case of a patient, among a group of five, in a small outbreak of histamine fish poisoning (HFP). The ...
Activity-Based Detection and Bioanalytical Confirmation of a Fatal Carfentanil Intoxication.
a forensic case. Confirmation and quantification using a validated bioanalytical procedure revealed the, to our knowledge, highest carfentanil concentrations reported in humans so far. Health Topics: Ziekten ...
Very Long Persistence of Botulinum Toxin B in a Patient’s Serum
immunocompromised adults) botulism. Case Report: A case of human botulism type B due to the consumption of an imported dried ham is reported. Laboratory results confirmed the diagnosis using the mouse bioassay and the qPCR ...
Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015.
pathogenic STEC strains. In this context, efforts are still needed to send samples and STEC strains from HUS cases to the National Reference Centre. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Surveillance ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
the Disability-Adjusted Life Year approach used in human health audits, we propose WALY as the sum of a) the years lived with impaired welfare due to a particular cause and b) the years of life lost due ...
Burden of salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis and listeriosis: a time series analysis, Belgium, 2012 to 2020.
are food-borne diseases. We estimated and forecasted the number of cases of these three diseases in Belgium from 2012 to 2020, and calculated the corresponding number of disability-adjusted life years ...
Development and validation of a protocol for optimizing the use of paraffin blocks in molecular epidemiological studies: The example from the HPV-AHEAD study.
evaluation of the cases assured the presence of the targeted tissue, identified the presence of other tissues that could disturb the molecular diagnosis and allowed the assessment of tissue quality. Health ...