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Bigger and Better? Representativeness of the Influenza A Surveillance Using One Consolidated Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Data Set as Compared to the Belgian Sentinel Network of Laboratories.
clinical laboratories or laboratory networks, to survey the presence of specific microbial agents known to constitute a threat to public health in a given population. This monitoring activity is commonly ...
Shifting national surveillance of Shigella infections toward geno-serotyping by the development of a tailored Luminex assay and NGS workflow.
combining five genetic markers for species identification with 11 markers for serotype prediction for S. sonnei and S. flexneri isolates. Using a test panel of 254 clinical samples, this assay has ...
Strong increase of true and false positive mycobacterial cultures sent to the National Reference Centre in Belgium, 2007 to 2016.
observational study investigated the numbers of analyses at the NRC and false positive cultures (interpreted as containing mycobacteria at referring clinical laboratories, but with no mycobacterial DNA detected ...
Personal exposure to traffic-related air pollutants and relationships with respiratory symptoms and oxidative stress: A pilot cross-sectional study among urban green space workers.
the relationship with respiratory and oxidative stress outcomes in a cross-sectional sample of 48 green space workers in Brussels, Belgium. Participants were followed during four consecutive working ...
Asymptomatic bacteriuria in older adults: the most fragile women are prone to long-term colonization
screened for ABU. Mid-stream urine samples were collected during two sampling rounds, separated by 10 weeks, each consisting of an initial and a confirmative follow-up sample. Results: ABU occurred in ...
Low hepatitis C prevalence in Belgium: implications for treatment reimbursement and scale up.
order to guide decisions on DAA reimbursement. METHODS: Residual sera were collected through clinical laboratories. We collected data on age, sex and district. HCV antibody status was determined with ...
Relation between broiler and human Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated in Belgium from 2011 to 2013.
study inquires the relationship between Campylobacter jejuni isolated from broiler meat carcasses (n = 97) and human clinical samples (n = 72) in Belgium, from 2011 to 2013. METHODS AND RESULTS: The ...
Falsification of biotechnology drugs: current dangers and/or future disasters?
contaminations and product or process related impurities. Moreover, also unauthorized polypeptides or polypeptides which failed clinical trials or are still subject of clinical or pre-clinical assessments have ...
Sera from different age cohorts in Belgium show limited cross-neutralisation between the mumps vaccine and outbreak strains
Steven Van Gucht Source: Clinical Microbiology and Infection (2018) Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Mumps used to affect children between two and 15 years old. The MMR (mumps-measles-rubella) vaccine is available ...
RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
v and clinical Mtb strains on ten anti- TB drugs including Bedaquiline, Pyrazinamide and Delamanid was determined, to identify RNA Biomarkers. In a next phase, the RNA-based DST was developed in 96 well ...