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A protocol for identifying the needs related to drug use, health and social (re)integration of people living in prison within five European countries
Yiasemi, Ioanna; Mavrou, Josefina Source: Arch Public Health, Volume 82, Issue 1 (2024) Keywords: Drug use; Europe; Health; Mixed methods; People living in prison; Social (re)integration needs; Study ...
An interlaboratory proficiency test using metagenomic sequencing as a diagnostic tool for the detection of RNA viruses in swine fecal material.
between participants, which was related to the different laboratory methods used for data generation. Further modeling of the mNGS data indicated the importance of selecting appropriate reference data for ...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in food and beverages: determination by LC-HRMS and occurrence in products from the Belgian market.
analytical method for the quantification of 25 PFAS in food including food for the young population and beverages, and to gather the missing occurrence data for the dietary exposure evaluation for the Belgian ...
Potential (co-)contamination of dairy milk with AFM1 and MC-LR and their synergistic interaction in inducing mitochondrial dysfunction in HepG2 cells.
is a knowledge gap regarding the carry-over of certain emerging toxins such as microcystin- LR (MC- LR). Therefore, this work aimed to develop an LC- MS / MS method for MC- LR quantification in dairy ...
FT-IR spectroscopy as a rapid method for Salmonella spp. typing
products are most often implicated, although it can contaminate many food products. Fourier transform (FT- IR) spectroscopy allows for a rapid and cost-effective typing method of this bacterium at the ...
Comparing the sustainability of influenza-like illness monitoring in a questionnaire-based and a code-based data collection method in Belgian general practices: protocol and preliminary results
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Mélanie Nahimana; Nathalie Bossuyt; Floriane Rouvez; Sherihane Bensemmane; Robrecht De Schreye Source: EFPC 2024 Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-17 September 2024, European Forum ...
Variability in Alternaria alternata spore characteristics under different culture conditions: implications for automatic detection using air flow cytometry
media. While typical spores predominated, atypical forms were also identified, which may represent a potential bias for identification. Comparative analysis with air samples by the Hirst method also ...
The prevalence of pathogens in ticks collected from humans in Belgium, 2021, versus 2017.
was repeated in 2021. METHODS: During the tick season 2021, citizens were invited to have ticks removed from their skin, send them and fill in a short questionnaire on an existing citizen science ...
Sociodemographic and socioeconomic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belgium: a nationwide record linkage study
The aim of our study was to investigate the sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics associated with the uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in Belgium. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis ...
Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programmes in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023: a retrospective surveillance study.
Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023. METHODS: In this retrospective surveillance study, we estimated the number of lives directly saved by age group, vaccine dose, and circulating variant-of-concern ...