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INITIATIEF VOOR KWALITEITSVERBETERING EN EPIDEMIOLOGIE BIJ KINDEREN EN ADOLESCENTEN MET DIABETES (IKEKAD) Resultaten 2021
onderzoek en de beperkte follow-up, uit de zevende IKEKAD-audit is gebleken dat de gunstige evolutie op het vlak van HbA1c, een belangrijke indicator voor de zorgkwaliteit, zich voortzet. Aangezien er sinds ...
BSFM 2024- Reported food-borne outbreaks in Belgium, 2023
outbreaks, collects and centralizes the information on food-borne outbreaks (FBO s) and assures the follow-up of the FBO s in Belgium. Materials and Methods A food-borne outbreak is defined as an incidence, ...
Influenza like-illness surveillance using a Belgian sentinel network of nursing homes: results of October 2022 onwards
Following a two-year pilot study, an observational sentinel surveillance was initiated in October 2022. A geographically representative sample was established for Belgium using the number of NH beds as ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
initiated in 1994. Initially, participation in this surveillance was voluntary, but became mandatory in 2006. Methods Data, aggregated at hospital level, are collected retrospectively in the following year by ...
Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
a monthly basis, using a study period covering an eight-week follow-up period. Each month the study period was shifted forward to the following month. Country estimates were then pooled together. The study ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
following ISO 11290 – 1 and – 2. A human strain was collected at the NRC Listeria. All isolated strains underwent serotyping for further characterisation at the NRC Listeria, and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) ...
Vaccine effectiveness of the second and third COVID-19 boosters in Belgium (administered during 2022 autumn campaign)
COVID-19 was rolled out to the adult population in Belgium, followed by the first booster campaign towards the end of the year. At the beginning of 2022, booster doses were recommended and offered to people ...
Epidemiology of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium from wave 1 to wave 7 (March 2020 – 11 September 2022)
surveillance of COVID-19 mortality, the observations on the first seven waves combined of the epidemic in Belgium (01/03/2020 – 11/09/2022) are as follows: Waves 66.8% of the COVID-19 deaths occurred during the ...
Tick-borne diseases in Belgium: The incidence and economic burden of Lyme borreliosis and the occurrence of other tick-borne infections
a syndrome often referred to as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). Although, in Belgium, different surveillance systems have been in place to follow-up LB trends since many years, knowledge gaps ...
Chemical and toxciological characterization of e-liquid cigarettes
In general, the legislative changes have had a positive effect on the quality of e-liquids: the results of our study show that the quality of e-liquids has improved following the implementation of the ...