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Lessons learned from Chernobyl and Fukushima on thyroid cancer screening and recommendations in case of a future nuclear accident.
Nuclear Accident Humans Japan Quality of Life Republic of Korea Thyroid Neoplasms Abstract: Exposure of the thyroid gland to ionizing radiation at a young age is the main recognized risk factor for ...
Cost-DALY comparison of hip replacement care in 12 Belgian hospitals
Belgian hospitals. METHODS: Our study seeks to innovate by proposing an interhospital comparison that simultaneously integrates the weighting of quality indicators and the costs of managing a patient. To this end, we ...
Pitfalls of rubella serology while on the brink of elimination: evaluation of national data, Belgium, 2017.
high vaccination coverage and a near-absence of congenital rubella cases. Different test kits are available and should be standardised by an international standard preparation.AimTo analyse and compare ...
Spotlight influenza: Extending influenza surveillance to detect non-influenza respiratory viruses of public health relevance: analysis of surveillance data, Belgium, 2015 to 2019.
cases were positive for NIRV, reaching 49.4% among children younger than 15 years. In children younger than 5 years, incidence rates of NIRV-associated SARI were twice that of influenza (103.5 vs ...
Capturing respiratory syncytial virus season in Belgium using the influenza severe acute respiratory infection surveillance network, season 2018/19.
and complications.ConclusionWith only marginal modifications in the case definition and the period of surveillance, the Belgian SARI network would be able to substantially contribute to RSV surveillance ...
Mycoplasma pneumoniae detections before and detections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a global survey, 2017 to 2021.
school closure periods. Seven sites (Europe, Asia and America) reported MRM p detections in one of 22 investigated cases in April 2020 to March 2021 and 176 of 762 (23.10%) in previous years (p ...
A TaqMan probe-based multiplex real-time PCR method for the specific detection of wild type lumpy skin disease virus with beta-actin as internal amplification control.
DNA copies, the limit of detection for WT LSDV was 12.6 DNA copies per reaction. The inter-assay CV was 0.04% for WT LSDV and 0.13% for beta-actin. The method can confirm diagnosis in suspect cases ...
Four sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Belgian general practice: first results (2013-2014) of a nationwide continuing surveillance study.
Network of Sentinel General Practices (SGP) over the first 2 years (2013 and 2014) and to estimate the incidence of these 4 sexually transmitted infections (STI s). A special focus is put on data quality ...