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Belgian general practitioners’ perception and use of physical activity on prescription
PAP as a prevention intervention. In Belgium, overall 94,1% of citizens have a referring General Practitioner (GP) or are affiliated with a general practice. There is no national policy on PAP, only ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
Materials and Methods Food samples were collected by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) and analysed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Foodborne outbreaks ...
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 ...
Belgian recommendations for analytical verification and validation of immunohistochemical tests in laboratories of anatomic pathology
equipment are common practice for today’s anatomic pathology laboratories. Few references or guidelines are available on how this should be performed. The study of Sciensano (the Belgian national competent ...
Microbial quality analysis of falsified medicines seized by controling agencies
refers to the amount and type of microorganisms present in a sample and reflects the level of biological contamination and associated potential health risks upon consumption of the product. We initially ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
were developed using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection. The obtained multidimensional fingerprint data for a herbal reference standard (absorbance × wavelengths ...
Intra- and interlaboratory reproducibility of the RIATOL qPCR HPV genotyping assay.
of the National Reference Center for HPV in Belgium. Specimens were collected in the context of cervical cancer screening and tested in two different laboratories. The international reproducibility ...
Comparison of the Clinical Accuracy of Xpert HPV Assay on Vaginal Self-Samples and Cervical Clinician-Taken Samples within the VALHUDES Framework.
collected with Qvintip). Cervical samples were collected with Cervex-Brush. Colposcopy and histology outcomes were considered as the reference standard. The Xpert HPV assay had similar accuracy for cervical ...
Evaluation of a point-of-care test for the diagnosis of Taenia solium neurocysticercosis in rural southern Tanzania: a diagnostic accuracy study.
positive for cysticercosis on the TS POC test and every tenth patient who was negative for cysticercosis received a brain CT examination and underwent reference testing for T solium cysticercosis (ie, rT24H- ...
Investigating years of life lost in Belgium, 2004-2019: A comprehensive analysis using a probabilistic redistribution approach
Finally, we used the GBD 2019 reference life table to calculate Standard Expected Years of Life Lost (SEYLL). RESULTS: In Belgium, between 2004 and 2019, IDD s increased from 31 to 34% of all deaths. The ...