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Nationwide quality assurance of high-throughput diagnostic molecular testing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: role of the Belgian National Reference Centre.
laboratories and government-supported high-throughput platforms were gradually deployed across Belgium. Consequently, the role of the NRC transitioned from a specialised testing laboratory to strengthening ...
Accuracy of high-risk HPV DNA PCR, p16(INK4a) immunohistochemistry or the combination of both to diagnose HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer
cancers (OPC), is increasing in high-resource countries. Patients with HPV-induced cancer respond better to treatment and consequently have lower case-fatality rates than patients with HPV-unrelated OPC. ...
Risk assessment of chlorinated paraffins in feed and food
data were submitted for LCCP s. Thus, a robust exposure assessment and consequently a complete risk characterisation could not be performed. A preliminary risk characterisation based only on the ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
a consequence of active prevention campaigns targeting pregnant women. However, in 2018 a relatively high number of 11 MN cases were reported. In Belgium, listeriosis is a notifiable infectious disease, and ...
Generating the evidence for risk reduction: a contribution to the future of food-based dietary guidelines.
diseases. As a consequence, food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) are now the preferred approach to guide the population regarding their dietary habits. However, such guidelines should be based on a high grade ...
Allergic Asthma Favors Growth in the Lungs of Infected Mice.
the impact of asthma on the control of infectious microorganisms and the underlying mechanisms. In this work, we characterize the consequences of allergic asthma on intranasal (i.n.) infection by ...
Historical aspects of iodine deficiency control.
Western Europe and Northern America before the 1930’s; however large populations elsewhere and even some places in Western Europe (Sicily) were still affected up to the 2000’s. Public health consequences of ...
Letter to the editor: New metrics to monitor progress towards global HIV targets: using the estimated number of undiagnosed HIV-infected individuals as denominator.
success because PLHIV on treatment currently live longer with HIV and consequently, the proportion of undiagnosed persons with HIV will naturally become smaller in relation to the ever-increasing population ...
The impact of individual-level heterogeneity on estimated infectious disease burden: a simulation study.
rates when heterogeneity was present could overestimate total DALY s, in the present case by 4% (95% quantile interval: 1-8%). CONCLUSIONS: The consequences of ignoring population heterogeneity should be ...
Optimising the case-crossover design for use in shared exposure settings.
time-varying confounding.We illustrated the consequences of different RSS using a simulation study informed by data on meteorological variables and Legionnaires’ disease. By randomising the events and exposure ...