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Nationwide quality assurance of high-throughput diagnostic molecular testing during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: role of the Belgian National Reference Centre.
in Belgium, UZ / KU Leuven has played a crucial role as the National Reference Centre (NRC) for respiratory pathogens, to be the first Belgian laboratory to develop and implement laboratory developed ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
and year. Significant differences (p<.05) of the association between overweight and SES 1997 is assessed through logistic regression controlled for age and sex using 1997 as reference year. Results ...
Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance.
monitor general trends and early signals of viral genetic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and compare it with the BGS as a reference model. METHODS: Nine-hundred twenty-five SARS-CoV-2 positive samples from ...
Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys
collection modes. This paper describes the methodological choices and results in terms of participation for the COVID-19 health surveys conducted in Belgium. Methods The COVID-19 health surveys refer to ...
Virological surveillance of influenza in Belgium, season 2019-2020
viruses fell in the 6B. 1A5A subgroup represented by the reference strain A/Norway/3433/2018. About half of the sequenced A(H3N2) viruses belonged to the clade 3C.2a1 and the remaining belonged to the ...
Salmonella Durban meningitis: case report and genomics study.
analysis was compatible with a bacterial meningitis which was later identified by the NRC (National Reference Center) as Salmonella enterica serovar Durban. CONCLUSIONS: In this paper, we present the ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
multiple infections (COVID-naive reference, minimum 1 infection before PC: OR =0.73, 95% CI 0.67-0.79, 1 infection after PC: OR =0.29, 95% CI 0.27–0.31; multiple infections before and after; OR =0.15, 95% CI ...
Factors underlying COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake among fully vaccinated adults in Belgium
with no infection, especially when the infection occurred after completion of PC and with multiple infections (COVID-naive reference, minimum 1 infection before PC: OR =0.73, 95% CI 0.67-0.79, ...
Evaluation of a Liquid Media MALDI-TOF MS Protocol for the Identification of Dermatophytes Isolated from Infections.
and accurate identification capability, relatively low cost, and easy integration into the laboratory routine. Its accuracy heavily depends on the quality of the reference spectra database. ...
MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Online Identification of Using the MSI-2 Application.
MSI-2 MALDI- TOF identification tool in order to identify. By multiplying the culture conditions (2 culture media and 6 stages of growth) prior to protein extractions for both test isolates and reference ...