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Impact of short-term exposure to air pollution on natural mortality and vulnerable populations: a multi-city case-crossover analysis in Belgium
Source: Environmental Health, Volume 23, Issue 1 (2024) Health Topics: Health and environment Santé et environnement Gezondheid en milieu Service: Évaluation des risques et de l'impact sur la santé ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
Safety microbiological contaminants shotgun metagenomics Abstract: Foodborne contaminations are a global burden on public health worldwide. For many years, and until recently, the microbial contaminants ...
Comparison of 6 DNA extraction methods for isolation of high yield of high molecular weight DNA suitable for shotgun metagenomics Nanopore sequencing to detect bacteriaAbstractBackgroundResultsConclusion
improves the reconstruction of genomes and helps to resolve complex genomic contexts, especially in the case of metagenome analysis. To take the best advantage of long-read sequencing, DNA extraction methods ...
In Silico Methods for Chromosome Damage.
Keywords: Chromosome Aberrations Chromosomes DNA Damage Humans Mutagenicity Tests Mutagens Mutation Abstract: Due to the link with serious adverse health effects, genotoxicity is an important toxicological ...
Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess all-cause mortality during second wave of COVID-19 in Europe, October to December 2020
COVID-19 cases, and EuroMOMO is again witnessing a substantial excess all-cause mortality attributable to COVID-19. Health Topics: Mortality Mortaliteit Mortalité Surveillance de la santé et des maladies ...
Association between temperature and natural mortality in Belgium: Effect modification by individual characteristics and residential environment
a time-stratified case-crossover design and used conditional logistic regression to examine the association between extreme temperatures and overall natural and cause-specific mortality. City-specific estimates were ...
METROFOOD-RI: Pilot services with physical, remote and virtual access
provide to its users. The paper will give an overview and first evaluation of the use case service provision and provide an overview of the potential METROFOOD- RI service portfolio. Health Topics: Food ...
Exposure to green space and pollen allergy symptom severity: A case-crossover study in Belgium
exposure Abstract: Background: The prevalence of pollen allergy has increased due to urbanization, climate change and air pollution. The effects of green space and air pollution on respiratory health of ...
Use of Whole Genome Sequencing Data for a First in Silico Specificity Evaluation of the RT-qPCR Assays Used for SARS-CoV-2 Detection.
started in December 2019. COVID-19 cases are confirmed by the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in biological samples by RT-qPCR. However, limited numbers of SARS-CoV-2 genomes were available when the first ...
Thyroid cancer incidence near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level
was found for more incident cases of thyroid cancer near the two nuclear power plants. Regarding the two industrial and research nuclear sites, no evidence for a higher incidence in the vicinity of ...