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Whole Genome Sequencing Provides an Added Value to the Investigation of Staphylococcal Food Poisoning Outbreaks
electrophoresis, Staphylococcus protein A gene typing and other methods, but these are shown to lack resolution. We evaluated how whole genome sequencing (WGS) can offer a solution to these shortcomings. By WGS analysis of a selection ...
Urban environment and mental health: the NAMED project, protocol for a mixed-method study
residential environment. Methods and analysis Following a mixed-method approach, this project combines quantitative and qualitative research. In the quantitative part, we analyse among the Brussels urban population ...
Evaluating SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid proteins as targets for antibody detection in severe and mild COVID-19 cases using a Luminex bead-based assay.
Duysburgh; I Desombere; Hilde Jansens; Van Esbroeck, Marjan; Ariën, Kevin K Source: J Virol Methods, Volume 288 (2021) Keywords: Antibodies, Neutralizing Antibodies, Viral COVID-19 Humans Immunoassay ...
Particle size analysis of pristine food-grade titanium dioxide and E 171 in confectionery products: Interlaboratory testing of a SP-ICP-MS screening method and confirmation with transmission electron microscopy.
labelling of food ingredient to indicate the presence of engineered nanomaterials there is now a need for standardised and validated methods to appropriately size and quantify (nano)particles in food ...
Making the case for strong health information systems during a pandemic and beyond.
consortium representing HIS experts in key positions in national public health or similar institutes across Europe. METHODS: Data were collected in bi-weekly conference calls organized by the InfAct project ...
Long-term memory response after a single intramuscular rabies booster vaccination, 10-24 years after primary immunization.
We tested the hypothesis that rabies booster immunization elicits rapid anamnestic responses. METHODS: For this observational study, we included participants who had received PrEP 10-24 years before ...
Psychological distress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and suppression measures during the first wave in Belgium
Methods An online survey was distributed to the general population in Belgium 3 days after the beginning of the lockdown. 20,792 respondents participated. The psychological distress of the population was ...
Assessing polypharmacy in the older population: Comparison of a self‐reported and prescription based method
Belgium between self-reported and prescription based estimates and assess the relative merits of each data source. Methods Data were used from participants aged ≥65 years of the Belgian national health ...
Living with a chronic disease: insights from patients with a low socioeconomic status
relevant to these specific populations is therefore needed. We explored the experiences of living with a chronic disease in low SES persons. Methods A qualitative interview study was performed in Flanders, ...
Estimating the direct Covid-19 disability-adjusted life years impact on the Malta population for the first full year
a population level. Methods Mortality and weekly hospital admission data were used to calculate DALY s, based on the European Burden of Disease Network consensus Covid-19 model. Covid-19 infection duration of 14 days ...