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Identification of diffusion routes of O/EA-3 topotype of foot-and-mouth disease virus in Africa and Western Asia between 1974 and 2019- a phylogeographic analysis.
FMDV O/ EA-3 topotype at the inter-regional scale. We inferred a mean substitution rate of 6.64 × 10 nt/site/year and we predicted that the most recent common ancestor for our panel of samples ...
Severity of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Belgium.
the mean ICU occupancy rate during the patient’s hospital stay. Other variables identified as confounders in a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) were adjusted for using regression analysis. Sensitivity ...
Validity of air pollution annoyance to assess long-term exposure to air pollution in Belgium
and annual means of air pollution concentration at the residence. Self-reported air pollution annoyance was assessed through a five-point Likert scale. Statistical analyses included Spearman correlation ...
Risks related to a possible reduction of the waiting period for dogs after rabies antibody titration to 30 days compared with 90 days of the current EU legislative regime.
increase from 5 to 20 when decreasing the waiting period from 90 to 30 days. Nevertheless, the potential impact of even a small increase in probability means the risk is increased for a region like the EU ...
Use of near infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics for the classification of different Cannabis spp. samples found in Belgium
Score plot of the PC1, PC2 and PC3 of spectra pretreated. Samples with >0.2% THC in red and blue and sample with < 0.2% THC in green. The SIMCA classification model has a correct classification rate ...
COVID-19 contact tracing in Belgium: main indicators and performance, January- September 2021.
symptom onset and contact tracing initiation was around 5 days, of which 4 days corresponded to pre-testing delay. High-Risk Contacts (HRC) were reported by 49% of the contacted index cases. The mean number ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
≥30 (mean follow-up: 9.97 years). Annual mean concentrations for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), black carbon (BC) and ozone (O3) were assessed at baseline residential address ...
Health care costs and lost productivity costs related to excess weight in Belgium
identified to be the main drivers for these incremental health care costs were hypertension, high cholesterol, serious gloom and depression. Mean annual incremental cost of absenteeism for overweight accounted ...
Lyme borreliosis in Belgium: a cost-of-illness analysis
of the total costs, respectively, while direct non-medical costs accounted for only 3.8%. The estimated mean costs were €193 per EM patient and €5,148 per disseminated/late LB patient. While patients ...
Higher buccal mtDNA content is associated with residential surrounding green in a panel study of primary school children
in 246 children with a total of 436 measurements (mean age 10.3 years). Within a 1000m radius around the residential address, an IQR increment in low (11.0%), high (9.5%), and total (13.9%) green space ...