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Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
(EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) over the last decade. However, there remain considerable disparities in the rate of decline and the burden of new HIV infections between countries and among ...
Health and economic burden of Campylobacter
Campylobacter is estimated to be the sixth most important contributor to the global burden of foodborne disease, and is consistently ranked among the leading causes of foodborne disease burden in high-income ...
Quantifying burden of disease to support public health policy in Belgium: opportunities and constraints
Disease burden HEALTH POLICY Abstract: Background To support public health policy, information on the burden of disease is essential. In recent years, the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) has emerged as ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change
country with the lowest rate as reference; statistical significance was tested assuming a Poisson distribution of the number of deaths. Results The burden of premature mortality is much higher in men than ...
Burden of influenza, healthcare seeking behaviour and hygiene measures during the A(H1N1)2009 pandemic in France: a population based study.
Volume 12 (2012) Keywords: burden INFLUENZA population study Abstract: BACKGROUND: Influenza surveillance systems do not allow the identification of the true burden of illness caused by influenza in the ...
Mortality associated with in-hospital bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus: a multistate analysis with follow-up beyond hospital discharge.
mortality should be considered on two levels: the burden of disease, i.e. nosocomial infection with S. aureus bacteraemia, and the burden of resistance to methicillin. Health Topics: Antimicrobial resistance ...
Clinical outcomes of health-care-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in patients admitted to European intensive-care units: a cohort study.
1·05 (0·97-1·13) for pneumonia and 1·02 (0·98-1·17) for bloodstream infections. P aeruginosa had the highest burden of health-care-acquired infections because of its high prevalence and pathogenicity of ...
The burden of healthcare‐associated infections in European long‐term care facilities.
distribution and characteristics of infection control programs in long‐term care facilities and to quantify the burden of infections, antimicrobial resistance, and antimicrobial use in long‐term care facilities. ...
Liver X receptors contribute to the protective immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice.
isoforms, LXR alpha and LXR beta (Lxra-/-Lxrb-/- mice), were more susceptible to infection, developing higher bacterial burdens and an increase in the size and number of granulomatous lesions. Interestingly, ...
Validation of the CALUX bioassay for PCDD/F analyses in human blood plasma and comparison with GC-HRMS.
dioxin body burden in the Belgian population. The Scientific Institute of Public Health identified a population from whom plasma samples were available and from whom, during the follow up survey, plasma ...