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Methodological choices in brucellosis burden of disease assessments: A systematic review
estimates at the global level, the rest were national or subnational assessments. Data regarding different methodological choices were extracted, including detailed assessments of the adopted disease models. ...
Reliability of Morphological and PCR Methods for the Official Diagnosis of Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae): A European Inter-Laboratory Comparison.
species. To ensure the reliability of official diagnoses in case of introduction, an inter-laboratory comparison was organised on the identification of by morphology and real-time PCR. Twenty-two National ...
Dietary exposure assessment and risk characterization of citrinin and ochratoxin A in Belgium
in three age categories (3–9, 10–17 and 18–64 years), obtained from a national food consumption survey. Furthermore, a risk characterization was performed for CIT, in which no intake values exceeded ...
Phylogenetic Analysis of Belgian Small Ruminant Lentiviruses Supports Cross Species Virus Transmission and Identifies New Subtype B5 Strains.
nowadays consists out of 5 genotypes and 28 subtypes. In support of our national SRLV control program, we performed the genetic characterization of SRLV strains circulating in the Belgian sheep and goat ...
Imported human brucellosis in Belgium: Bio and molecular typing of bacterial isolates, 1996-2015.
origin of each strain when patient history and risk factors were missing, and to survey for particular trends at the national level. METHODS: A total of 37 Brucella strains, isolated from 37 patients in ...
Exploring the Diversity of Field Strains of Brucella abortus Biovar 3 Isolated in West Africa.
required both at national and regional level to assess potential threats for public health. Highly discriminative genotyping methods such as the multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis ...
The Assessment of African Swine Fever Virus Risk to Belgium Early 2014, using the Quick and Semiquantitative Pandora Screening Protocol.
prompted several risk assessments by (inter)national bodies and scientists. In this study, the open source, semiquantitative Pandora risk assessment tool was used for a quick overall screening of the risk ...
Schmallenberg Virus in Belgium: Estimation of Impact in Cattle and Sheep Herds.
D) were randomly selected. Farms from groups A (n = 53) and C (n = 42) received SBV-positive result at RT- PCR in the Belgian National Reference Laboratory (NRL). Farms from groups B (n = 29) and ...
About three cases of ulceroglandular tularemia, is this the re-emergence of Francisella tularensis in Belgium?
during outdoor activities in Southern Belgium. Confirmation of the diagnosis was established by serology. Only three cases of tularemia have been reported in Belgium between 1950 and 2012 by the National ...
Role of wildlife and domestic pigs as reservoirs for hepatitis E virus (HEV): study of the infection in suids and cervids and of the susceptibility of pigs to HEV originating from wild boa
hepatitis E cases of the Belgian National Center for viral hepatitis, obtained between 2009 and 2011, were available in sufficient amount and used for genetic comparison with swine samples. Four out of 420 ...