Zoekresultaten - 18 results
Could a ring treatment approach be proposed to control Taenia solium transmission in a post elimination setting? A pilot study in Zambia.
treating individuals within a radius of 100-meter of a cysticercosis positive pig have been trialled in Peru. This study explored if a similar approach could be proposed to control T. solium transmission in ...
A One-Health approach to monitoring antimicrobial consumption in Belgium 2012-2021
Prevention and Control. The data were [2] converted to the mass of active compound and aggregated by antimicrobial class. Annual human biomass in Belgium was estimated from Eurostat population demography data ...
A genomic appraisal of invasive Salmonella Typhimurium and associated antibiotic resistance in sub-Saharan Africa.
sequence data from 1303 S. Typhimurium isolates originating from 19 African countries and isolated between 1979 and 2017, here we show a thorough scaled appraisal of the population structure of iNTS disease ...
Evaluation of the clinical performance of OncoPredict HPV® SCR assay within the VALGENT‐2 framework
assay targeting E6 / E7 genes of 13 high-risk (hr) HPV s. OncoPredict HPV ® SCR (index assay) identifies HPV-16 and HPV-18 separately, 11 other hrHPV in aggregate and includes quality controls for sample ...
Self-uniqueness beliefs and adherence to recommended precautions. A 5-wave longitudinal COVID-19 study
a 5-wave longitudinal study in December 2020-May 2021 (N ≈ 5000/wave). The sample was in key respects representative for the Belgian population. We used joint models to examine the relationship between ...
Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
different population groups. In order to achieve the 95-95-95 targets set out by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), a strong and sustained focus on HIV prevention is paramount. This ...
The protective effect of rural life on mite sensitization disappears among urban migrants in the South of Vietnam.
prevalence of mite sensitization and its relation to house dust characteristics among rural and urban native and migrating populations with CRD. METHODS: Rural (n = 19) and urban (n = 46) dwellings were ...
Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
BACKGROUND: Many population health surveys consist of a mixed-mode design that includes a face-to-face (F2F) interview followed by a paper-and-pencil (P&P) self-administered questionnaire (SAQ) for the ...
Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.
welfare compromise as perceived by humans and total impact of diseases in individual animals. The WALY can potentially be used for prioritisation of disease eradication and control programs, quantification ...
Vaccine preventable bacterial diseases in Belgium: monitoring of general population immunity and pregnancy vaccination strategies
vaccination. Diphtheria and tetanus are now under control although sporadic cases still occur in highly vaccinated populations, whereas pertussis is re-emerging in some developed countries despite the high ...