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THE ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS COLLECTED DURING A SUMMER FESTIVAL AND EVALUATION OF THE NARCOREADER FOR ON-SITE ANALYSIS OF MDMA
identification ketamine MDMA mid-IR Narcoreader near-IR On-site Quantification RAMAN UV spectroscopy Abstract: Background: The most used on-site methods to identify illicit drugs consist of color tests or ...
Occurrence of microcystin congeners in surface waters and food in Belgium as a source of exposure to humans
risk management through concrete policy measures. This doctoral dissertation discusses the development and validation of fit-for-purpose analytical methodologies to quantify the most prevalent cyanotoxin ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
a good alternative to detect and characterize the contaminant, and no enrichment was conducted on these samples, that are considered as non-complex matrices as most of the DNA contamination should belong ...
The interplay between market concentration and diversity, food environment related commitments and associated practices of major food companies across European, Belgian and French markets
that most sold product categories as well as major food and beverage manufacturers were similar across Europe with moderately to highly concentrated product markets. The latter may be of concern as ...
Development of a data-intensive centralized system for surveillance and outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens using whole-genome sequencing
Modern sequencing technologies generate large volumes of data, for which public health laboratories often do not have the necessary infrastructure nor expertise to analyse. Additionally, most laboratories ...
Tick-borne diseases in Belgium: The incidence and economic burden of Lyme borreliosis and the occurrence of other tick-borne infections
Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome Tick-borne pathogens Abstract: Lyme borreliosis (LB) is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in Europe. The most common clinical manifestation is an erythema migrans, a red ...
Bepaling van spoorelementen in diverse matrices met spectrometische technieken.
has shown that Ti nanoparticles are contained in the fibers. Conclusion Only low concentrations of trace elements were found in most of the food enzyme preparations studied. The information collected ...
Development of a genoserotyping system for the identification of Salmonella serotypes
infect humans, but also animals which are its main reservoir. Humans are mostly infected through the consumption of animal-derived food products. Besides its impact on public health, another major concern ...
Fusarium, clinical relevance and mass spectrometry methods for identification, using strains of the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM/IHEM
variety of opportunistic human infections. In order to study the clinically relevant species diversity, the more than 300 Fusarium strains in the Belgian fungal culture collection BCCM / IHEM, mostly ...
Innate signaling by mycolate esters of the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and relevance for development of adjuvants for subunit vaccines
immune responses Mycolic Acids Trehalose dimycolate Tuberculosis Abstract: Tuberculosis remains among the most deadly health threats to humankind. This povertyrelated disease, caused by bacteria of the ...