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Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022
variability was observed in terms of explaining incident cases. These findings are of practical importance to WBE practitioners and show that the early-warning potential of WBE is WWTP-specific and ...
Third dose of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine closes the gap in immune response between naïve nursing home residents and healthy adults.
but limited data is available on the immune responses it induces. METHODS: In this observational cohort study, peak humoral and cellular immune responses were compared 28 days after the second and third ...
Development of a Droplet Digital PCR to Monitor SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant BA.2 in Wastewater Samples
RT-ddPCR method that targets the T19I amino acid mutation in the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 genomes, which is specific to the BA.2 variant (omicron). The T19I assay was evaluated both in silico and in ...
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)
2 (27/09-24/10) the percentage of adults (18 years or older) with anti- SARS-CoV-2 antibodies has increased from 69.5% to 90.4%. This substantial increase is in line with the intensive vaccination campaign during ...
Prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the general population in Belgium: First results of the SalivaHIS study
among not vaccinated people. A higher prevalence of anti- SARS-CoV-2 antibodies is found in woman than in men. This is in line with literature findings indicating that women showed a higher immune ...
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.
The presence of co-morbidities and immune ageing in the elderly lead to an increased susceptibility to COVID-19, as is the case for other influenza-like illnesses (ILI) or acute respiratory tract ...
SARS-CoV-2 infecties bij kinderen en jongeren van 0 tot en met 17 jaar in België, schooljaar 2020-2021
bleven, is dit een geruststellende vaststelling. Er zijn erg weinig gegevens over de mentale gezondheid van de kinderen en jongeren tijdens deze pandemie, maar het lijkt erop dat de COVID-19 pandemie (en de ...
Closing schools for SARS-CoV-2: a pragmatic rapid recommendation
experts, clinicians and researchers, produced this recommendation in compliance with the standards for trustworthy rapid guidelines. The recommendation is based on data collected through national ...
NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE OF SARS-COV-2 IN WASTEWATER- Last developments and results- May 2021
https://www.sciensano.be/en/node/67536 Keywords: coronacrisis Coronavirus COVID COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance wastewater wastewater surveillance Abstract: This report (published in May 2021) is dedicated to the SARS-CoV-2 wastewater ...
Deepening of In Silico Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Detection RT-qPCR Assays in the Context of New Variants
Abstract: For 1 year now, the world is undergoing a coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The most widely used method for ...