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Establishing disease models for the Belgian national burden of disease study: challenges and perspectives
are adapted from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, and complemented with local data where possible. This process ensures consistency with available disability weights, while still allowing for ...
Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, Annual summary report 2023
surveillance are still necessary, however, because of the risk of importation and the severity of these diseases. After a general decline in the number of cases of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in ...
Patterns and drivers of excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 13 Western European countries
hospital admissions were still low in 2020 (correlation coefficient rho = 0.65, p = 0.03) and rapid rollout of vaccines in the elderly in early 2021 (rho = − 0.76, p = 0.002). Countries which implemented ...
Physicochemical characterization and genotoxicity assessment of nanomaterials using new approach methodologies
assessment [1,2]. Currently, hazard and risk assessment still heavily relies on conventional animal testing. Use of new approach methodologies (NAM s) can fill certain data gaps and complement the available safety ...
Determination of 16 Hydroxyanthracene Derivatives in Food Supplements Using LC-MS/MS: Method Development and Application.
Belgium were analyzed. The results indicated that although the industry put a great effort into minimizing the amount of aloin and danthron present in food supplements, more than half of the products still ...
Illegal medicines observed in the EU
conclude, both health care workers as the public should be aware of the dangers, since trade in illegal medicines is still growing and intoxications as well as treatment failure can occur with falsified ...
Potential (co-)contamination of dairy milk with AFM1 and MC-LR and their synergistic interaction in inducing mitochondrial dysfunction in HepG2 cells.
keeping the question on MC- LR carry-over still unanswered. Moreover, an in silico analysis, using a 3D molecular modeling was performed, pointing to a possible interaction between MC- LR and milk proteins, ...
Overview of air quality measures aiming to reduce emissions from road traffic and mitigate health impact in Belgium
pollution levels in Belgium, a considerable part of the population is still exposed to concentration levels exceeding the WHO Air Quality Guidelines. Therefore, identifying and quantifying the effectiveness ...
Trends of Clostridioides difficile infections in Belgian hospitals, between 2010 and 2022
2.66 – 2.89). HA- CDI are still a burden on hospitals compared to twelve years ago, although recent literature suggest that the importance of community-associated CDI should not be ignored. The ...
Benchmarking bacterial taxonomic classification using nanopore metagenomics data of several mock communities
sequencing. While second-generation Illumina sequencing still dominates, third-generation nanopore sequencing promises improved classification through longer reads. However, extensive benchmarking studies on ...