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Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
latrines was more typical in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC s). Almost all programmes analysed samples in-country, with an average processing time of 2·3 days in HIC s and 4·5 days in LMIC s. ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
week 15 2020). Age and sex 91.8% of the COVID-19 deaths were 65 years and older. The median age of COVID-19 deaths was 84 years old and the average age was 81.6 years old. In all age groups up to 80-84 ...
Epidemiologie van COVID-19 mortaliteit in België van golf 1 tot golf 7 (maart 2020 – 11 september 2022)
jaar en de gemiddelde leeftijd was 81,6 jaar. In alle leeftijdsgroepen tot en met 80-84 jaar vertegenwoordigden mannen het grootste deel van de COVID-19 overlijdens. Plaats van overlijden De meeste ...
Third dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine closes the gap in immune response between naïve nursing home residents and healthy adults.
the following six months. The trial is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04527614). FINDINGS: All included residents (n = 85) and staff members (n = 88) were SARS-CoV-2 infection naïve at third dose ...
Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general population in Belgium: Results of the second data collection (28/09/21-23/02/22)
vaccinated having received the last dose (eventually a booster) longer than 3 months ago, these percentages were respectively 93.8% and 95.7% Among people who had not received any COVID-19 vaccine at all the ...
The prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 study (PICOV) in nursing home residents and staff- study protocol description and presentation of preliminary findings on symptoms.
past infection (naïve) in residents and staff members of nursing homes. This paper describes the study design and population characteristics at baseline. METHODS: In 26 Belgian nursing homes, all ...
Closing schools for SARS-CoV-2: a pragmatic rapid recommendation
were insufficient to mitigate the exponential rise of infections in October. Children were still receiving all lessons at school at that time and it was questioned whether this position was tenable. We ...
SARS-CoV-2 afvalwateronderzoek in België: ons afvalwater bevestigt de dalende trend, Sciensano press release, June 2021
resultaten van vorige week zien we dat bijna alle 42 behandelde gebieden een dalende trend vertonen in de SARS-CoV-2-circulatie. Health Topics: Health and disease monitoring Coronavirus Surveillance de la ...
Monitoring of human coronaviruses in Belgian primary care and hospitals, 2015-20: a surveillance study.
their hospital stay. All samples were analysed by multiplex quantitative RT- PCR s for respiratory viruses, including seasonal hCoVs OC43, NL63, and 229E. We estimated the prevalence and incidence of ...
Deepening of In Silico Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Detection RT-qPCR Assays in the Context of New Variants
highlights that considering the evolution of the virus and the emergence of new variants, an in silico (re-)evaluation should be performed on a regular basis. Ideally, this should be done for all the RT-qPCR ...