Zoekresultaten - 29 results

Knowledge, perceptions and practices related to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses: survey in Belgium, 2022

the Health Belief Model). We included questions on demographic variables;  knowledge;  perceptions, self-efficacy and cues to actions (Likert scales); and  preventive measures. We assigned knowledge ...

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

per SD increase, respectively. In 38/40 WWTP s, variants did not explain variability in RNA levels independent of cases. Furthermore, our study shows that RNA levels can lead incident cases by at least ...

An overview of programmatic indicators to monitor the roll-out of HIV preexposure prophylaxis.

PrEP users, the number of HIV seroconversions among PrEP users and some variably defined indicators related to continuation and discontinuation of PrEP. Despite its perceived high relevance, studies ...

High diversity of yeast species and strains responsible for vulvovaginal candidiasis in South-East Gabon.

Volume 33, Issue 2 (2022) Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Candida albicans generally remains the principal pathogenic yeast responsible for vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), although with variable prevalence. In this ...

Estimating national and subnational nutrient intake distributions of global diets

micronutrients and 21 macronutrients, and disaggregated these distributions by sex and age groups. We compared the variability and skewness of the distributions and evaluated their similarity across countries, ...

Validity of self-reported air pollution annoyance to assess long-term exposure to air pollutants in Belgium

of variables selected with elastic net cross-validation, including variables related to environmental annoyance, socio-economic and health status of participants. Finally, the performance of the models ...

A Role for B Cells to Transmit Hepatitis C Virus Infection.

Envelope Proteins Viral Hepatitis Vaccines Young adult Abstract: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is highly variable and transmits through infected blood to establish a chronic liver infection in the majority of ...

Morbidity Statistics: 2019 Pilot Data Collection Belgium, Final Report

to decrease the risk of errors due to miscoding or the collection of variables and facilitating future work. We propose a reduced set of indicators for inclusion, as the validity of some indicators is ...

Phylogeography of Human and Animal Strains: Genetic Fingerprinting of Q Fever in Belgium.

reservoirs. To determine the relationship between animal and human strains, Multiple Locus Variable-number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) (n=146), Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) (n=92) and Whole Genome ...

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