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Issues arising when crossing a border to give birth: an exploratory study on the French-Belgian border.
suggests that many organised initiatives for cross-border collaboration in healthcare in border regions originate from the need for women to give birth close to home. Despite this, there is remarkably little ...
The combination of attenuated Newcastle disease (ND) vaccine with rHVT-ND vaccine at 1 day old is more protective against ND virus challenge than when combined with inactivated ND vaccine.
are failing to sufficiently induce the high levels of immunity necessary to control ND. There is a need for vaccination programmes that could be initiated at 1-day-old for mass application and which ...
Risk assessment for contained use of GMOs
This leads to allocate the GMO to an initial class of risk (class 1 to class 4). Assessment of the exposure taking into account the nature and scale of the activity. Determination of final risk ...
Detection of total and PRRSV-specific antibodies in oral fluids collected with different rope types from PRRSV-vaccinated and experimentally infected pigs.
fluid collected from PRRSV-vaccinated and infected pigs. RESULTS: An initial experiment showed that IgA is the predominant antibody isotype in porcine saliva. Moreover, it was found that synthetic ropes ...
Infant botulism after honey exposure (article in French)34074
national old PROGRESSION report reports risk risks SB- IM Abstract: Infant botulism is a rare neuroparalytic disease caused by the neurotoxin of Clostridium botulinum. Initial clinical features are ...
Multidisciplinary investigation of a multicountry outbreak of Salmonella Stanley infections associated with turkey meat in the European Union, August 2011 to January 201334078
initiated including EU and national agencies for public health, veterinary health and food safety. Two of three local outbreak investigations undertaken by affected countries in 2012 identified turkey meat as ...
Belgian recommendations on ANA, anti-dsDNA and anti-ENA antibody testing704
Standardization Initiative) team, to all clinical laboratories performing ANA testing. Virtually all laboratories completed the questionnaire (97.7%, 127/130). This paper discusses the results of this questionnaire ...
Follow-up of Helicobacter pylori infection in children over two decades (1988-2007): persistence, relapse and acquisition rates.
laboratory in Brussels. The total number of biopsies increased markedly from 941 in 1988-1993 to 1608 in 2004-2007. Biopsies were repeated at least once for 922 subjects (603 initially negative and 319 ...
Evaluation of the migration of 15 photo-initiators from cardboard packaging into Tenax(®) using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS).
Tandem Mass Spectrometry Abstract: Photo-initiators are widely used to cure ink on packaging materials used in food applications such as plastic films or cartonboards. In migration studies, food simulants ...
The health and economic burden of haemophilia in Belgium: a rare, expensive and challenging disease
in order to estimate the lifetime haemophilia burden for the 2011 birth-year Belgian cohort. The health burden was initially expressed in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALY s), the number of ...