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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 ...
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 ...
Development of a genoserotyping system for the identification of Salmonella serotypes
prevalence in the poultry and pork sectors in Belgium, i.e. S. Agona, S. Anatum, S. Brandenburg, S. Choleraesuis, S. Derby, S. Enteritidis including its vaccine variants AviPro SALMONELLA VAC E and Salmovac ...
Epidemiologie en behandeling van acute Charcot voet: prospectieve follow-up studie van 62 patiënten uit de IKED-Voet studie
and outcome. Data were collected in the context of the IQED-Foot study. The data were stratified in 2 different ways, after which analysis was performed. Results: The prevalence of an ulcer at first ...
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
seroprevalences can be found in European pig and wild boar populations. The aims of the first study of this thesis were to obtain prevalence data on HEV infection in swine in Belgium and to phylogenetically compare ...
The burden of cystic fibrosis in Belgium: a registry-based study
using a prevalence approach (hybrid model) in a multi-aspect disease model. Results: In 2014, patients with cystic fibrosis in Belgium are accountable for 484.8 YLL s and 437.6 YLD s, corresponding with ...
Impact of tobacco control interventions on health expectancies: use of dynamic modelling for health impact assessment in Belgium
disability prevalence. Disability was defined based on the Global Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI). We used a dynamic model, DYNAMO- HIA, to quantify the impacts of risk factor changes on health ...
Development of a generic and open source Incidence-Prevalence-Mortality model for the assessment of chronic disease epidemiology
epidemiological parameters of a disease. In particular, inputs on disease incidence, remission, and case fatality were needed to determine the disease-speci c mortality and prevalence. However, an iterative ...