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The data layer: the importance of sources critical appraisal
is to tracking the health status of its citizens and understanding its evolution over time. Given the absence of a singular, comprehensive data source, we developed a framework to select databases ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
outlines the CRA methodology in general, and the application on the risk-outcome pairs that have been given priority. The basic steps of CRA are: Selection of risk factors: Which risk factors are included ...
Galaxy @Sciensano: a comprehensive bioinformatics portal for genomics-based microbial typing, characterization, and outbreak detection.
range of tools provided by the community, complemented by over 50 custom tools and pipelines developed in-house. The tool selection is currently focused primarily on the analysis of WGS data generated ...
Risk Factor Analysis for Occurrence of Linezolid-Resistant Bacteria in the Digestive and Respiratory Tract of Food-Producing Animals in Belgium: A Pilot Study.
antimicrobials, such as phenicols (e.g., florfenicol), could cross/co-select for linezolid-resistant (LR) bacteria. Such LR strains pose a great concern for public health due to their potential transfer between ...
Impact of the 2020 EUCAST ‘I’ definition on the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: A national multicentric observational study in Belgian hospitals. 33rd International Congress of Antimicrobia
Testing (EUCAST) on antibiotic selection for treating Pseudomonas aeruginosan infections in Belgian hospitals. BACKGROUND: In 2020, EUCAST redefined the ‘I’ category in antimicrobial susceptibility ...
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and associated factors in the adult population of Belgium: a general population cohort study between March 2021 and April 2022
A prospective longitudinal surveillance study was conducted within a random sample of the general population (18 + years) in Belgium, selected from the national register through a multistage sampling design. ...
A One-Health approach to monitoring antimicrobial consumption in Belgium 2012-2021
[1] “Guidance on Selected Default Values to Be Used by the EFSA Scientific Committee, Scientific Panels and Units in the Absence of Actual Measured Data | EFSA.” [1] “ BELVETSAC.” Health Topics: ...
Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022
Secondly, adjusted WBE metrics at different lag times were used to predict incident COVID-19 cases. Model selection was based on AIC c minimization. Results: In 3¾0 WWTP s, RNA levels were best explained by ...
Data collection in pandemic times: the case of the Belgian COVID-19 health surveys
representativeness due to self-selection but were an important information source as there were few alternatives. Moreover, by following-up the same individuals over time it was possible to study the effect of the ...
Interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness: six European studies, October 2022 to January 2023.
settings.MethodsAll studies used the test-negative design, but with differences in other study characteristics, such as data sources, patient selection, case definitions and included age groups. Overall and influenza ...