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Nosocomial and non-nosocomial Clostridium difficile infections in hospitalised patients in Belgium: compulsory surveillance data from 2008 to 2010.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Viseur, N; Marie-Laurence Lambert; Delmée, M; Van Broeck, J; Boudewijn Catry Source: Euro Surveill, Volume 16, Issue 43 (2011) Keywords: ...
Parenteral versus oral administration of systemic antimicrobials in European nursing homes: a point-prevalence survey.
increased risk of having a urinary catheter (p < 0.001), a vascular catheter (p < 0.001), impaired mobility (p = 0.007) and disorientation (p = 0.005). Residents receiving parenteral antimicrobials also ...
The burden of healthcare‐associated infections in European long‐term care facilities.
Anti-Bacterial Agents Cross Infection Drug Resistance Europe Humans Infection Control nursing homes Surveys and Questionnaires Abstract: Since 2006, several projects have been initiated in Europe to describe the ...
Reflection paper on MRSA in food-producing and companion animals: epidemiology and control options for human and animal health.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Boudewijn Catry; Van Duijkeren, E; Pomba, M C; Greko, C; Moreno, M A; Pyörälä, S; Ruzauskas, M; Sanders, P; Threlfall, E J; Ungemach, F; ...
Trends in mortality and morbidity related to Clostridium difficile infections, Belgium 1998-2007
last decade. Emerging hypervirulent, fluoroquinolone-resistant strains might have contributed to this. We measured CDI-related mortality, incidence and number of diagnostic tests performed for the period ...
HIV infections and STI co-infections in men who have sex with men in Belgium: sustained increase in HIV diagnoses.
new HIV diagnoses characterised by a continuous increase in the number of cases among men who have sex with men (MSM). Based on surveillance data, in the past decade the yearly number of newly diagnosed ...
Marginal structural models for partial exposure regimes.
severely misleading in such settings and have shown contradictory results. Inverse probability weighting for marginal structural models may instead be used but is not directly applicable because these models ...
Trends in social inequalities in obesity: Belgium, 1997 to 2004.
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Rana Charafeddine; Herman Van Oyen; Stefaan Demarest Source: Prev Med, Volume 48, Issue 1, p.54-8 (2009) Keywords: ADOLESCENT Adult Aged ...
Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of tuberculosis subunit vaccines expressing PPE44 (Rv2770c).
Vaccines, Synthetic Virulence Factors Abstract: In this study we have evaluated the vaccine potential of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen of the PPE protein family, namely PPE44 (Rv2770c). PPE44-specific ...
Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of DNA vaccines encoding MAP0586c and MAP4308c of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis secretome.
Control of this disease is seriously hampered by the lack of adequate diagnostic tools, vaccines and therapies. In this study, we have evaluated the vaccine potential of two MAP proteins, i.e. MAP0586 c and ...