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Monitoring HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis programmes in the EU/EEA
of the regional progress of PrEP roll-out and its impact on the HIV epidemic. Mindful of the substantial variations in health systems and epidemiological contexts between EU / EEA countries, this ...
Surveillance of bloodstream infections in Belgian hospitals ('SEP')-Annual report 2017, Data up to and including 2016
is a large variation in HA- BSI incidence between hospitals. This suggests a potential for prevention and/or a need for data validation. Compared to 2013 the incidence of central line-associated ...
Development of a dot-blot assay for the detection of mould-specific IgE in the Belgian population
“major sensitization” defined as the strongest response against a single mould species was calculated. Results Intra- and inter-assay variations were both below 20%, and the positivity threshold of the ...
Initiative for Quality Improvement and Epidemiology in Multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Clinics (IQED-Foot)- Results of the 4th data collection (audit years 2013-2014)
variation should be worked on by exchanging practices between centres. Half of the ulcers healed during follow-up. Major amputation occurred in fewer than 3% of patients in the latest audit. These results ...
Surveillance of bloodstream infections in Belgian hospitals ('SEP')-Annual report 2016, Data up to and including 2015
than those found hospital-wide) There is a large variation in HA- BSI incidence between hospitals. This suggests a potential for prevention and/or a need for data validation. There is no indication that ...
Prevalence and molecular typing of Coxiella burnetii in bulk tank milk in Belgian dairy goats, 2009-2013.
170, Issue 1-2, p.117-24 (2014) Keywords: Animals Belgium Coxiella burnetii Genetic Variation Genotype Goat Diseases Goats Humans milk Molecular Typing prevalence Q Fever Vaccination Abstract: Q fever, ...
Preventable proportion of severe infections acquired in intensive care units: case-mix adjusted estimations from patient-based surveillance data.
was preventable. CONCLUSIONS: Our pragmatic, if highly conservative, estimates quantify the potential for prevention of VAP and BSI in routine conditions, assuming that variation in infection incidence between ICU ...
Universal hepatitis B vaccination in Belgium: impact on serological markers 3 and 7 years after implementation.
level (1·8% in 2006) similar to pre-vaccination data (1993-1994). We conclude that universal HBV vaccination has achieved overall high levels of vaccine-induced immunity, despite regional variations ...
Accuracy of human papillomavirus testing on self-collected versus clinician-collected samples: a meta-analysis.
(72-92) of CIN3 or worse. The pooled absolute specificity to exclude CIN2 or worse was 86% (83-89) and 87% (84-90) to exclude CIN3 or worse. The variation of the relative accuracy of HPV testing on ...
Molecular epidemiological analysis of the transboundary transmission of 2003 highly pathogenic avian influenza H7N7 outbreaks between the Netherlands and Belgium.
(2014) Keywords: Animal Husbandry Animals Belgium Disease Outbreaks Genetic Variation Germany Influenza A Virus, H7N7 Subtype Influenza in Birds Molecular Epidemiology Netherlands Population Control ...