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Streptococcus pyogenes infections with limited emm-type diversity in the homeless population of Brussels, 2016-2018.
strains were characterized using emm-typing and emm-clustering in both inpatients and outpatients. Analyses were performed according to homelessness status. RESULTS: During the study period, 48% (28/58) of ...
Antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals: results from the second point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, 2016 to 2017
Acute care hospitals antimicrobial use Healthcare-associated infection Abstract: Antimicrobial agents used to treat infections are life-saving. Overuse may result in more frequent adverse effects and ...
All-cause mortality rate of people in treatment for substance use disorders in Belgium: A register-based cohort study
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: L Van Baelen; Jérôme Antoine; Karin De Ridder; E Plettinckx; L. Gremeaux Source: Journal of Substance Use, Volume 24, Issue 5 (2019) ...
Contribution of chronic conditions to gender disparities in health expectancies in Belgium, 2001, 2004 and 2008
chronic conditions from participants of the 2001, 2004 and 2008 Health Interview Surveys in Belgium were used to estimate disability prevalence by cause using the attribution method. Disability prevalence ...
European all-cause excess and influenza-attributable mortality in the 2017/18 season: should the burden of influenza B be reconsidered?
European population excl. Russia and the Turkey part of European, we estimated age stratified all-cause excess morality using the EuroMOMO model. In addition, age stratified all-cause influenza-attributable ...
Contribution of chronic diseases to educational disparity in disability in France: results from the cross-sectional “disability-health” survey
Activity Limitation Indicator (GALI). The attribution method based on an additive hazard model was used to estimate educational differences in disabling impacts and in the contributions of diseases to ...
Socioeconomic factors contributing to under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: a decomposition analysis
using a regression-based decomposition of a Gini-type index. Results The Gini index – measuring the variability in U5M related to the four socioeconomic factors – varied from 0.006 (95% CI: 0.001–0.010) ...
Global burden of cancer and coronary heart disease resulting from dietary exposure to arsenic, 2015
used the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates of food consumption in 17 country clusters, in conjunction with the reported measurements of total and inorganic arsenic in different foods. We ...
Combining primary care surveillance and a meta-analysis to estimate the incidence of the clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in Belgium, 2015–2017
82.0–113.0) for the period 2015–2017. This result was used to estimate the incidence of other LB manifestations based on their proportional distribution (ratios) to EM reported in the neighboring countries of ...
The seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in Belgium anno 2002 and 2006: a comparative analysis with hepatitis A virus seroprevalence
Belgian cross-sectional serological datasets from 1993, 2002 and 2006, was used as a comparator since individuals acquire lifelong immunity upon recovery, implying an increasing seroprevalence with age. The ...