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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
risks. Environmental burden of disease (EBD) studies try to estimate the impact of environmental stressors in terms of mortality or morbidity on a population level. Although environmental risks have been ...
Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium
Epidemiologic surveillance of COVID-19 deaths was accurately conducted during the epidemic and it is even likely that COVID-19 deaths were underreported during the ascending phases of excess mortality by 1,193 ...
Urinary nicotine metabolites: usefulness as biomarkers of smoking status
https://www.sciensano.be/fr/biblio/urinary-nicotine-metabolites-usefulness-biomarkers-smoking-status
and further to trans-3’-hydroxycotinine (HCOT) by the cytochrome P450 CYP2A6 enzyme. It has been demonstrated that the ratio of HCOT to COT is an index of CYP2A6 activity, thus a marker of nicotine ...
Childhood Leukaemia incidence around the Belgian nuclear sites: Surrogate exposure modelling.
nuclear installations have been a major area of concern for several decadesalready. The main focus is on childhood leukaemia. The dominant approach is an ecological study using residential proximity to the ...
Revealing the identification power of CCS: A novel approach applied to pesticide analysis in food
Ion mobility is known to be a powerful analytical tool for the separation of complex samples and collision cross sections of compounds derived from drift time has been extensively used for ...
The dermatophyte species Arthroderma benhamiae: intraspecies variability and mating behaviour.
(group I) and yellow (group II), respectively. For all strains, the results of mating type identification by PCR, using HMG (high-mobility group) and α-box genes in the mating type locus as targets, were ...
The taxonomic status of Trichophyton quinckeanum and T. interdigitale revisited: a multigene phylogenetic approach.
Trichophyton quinckeanum, known as the causative agent of mouse favus, has been a subject of controversy since its discovery, 125 years ago. The purpose of this study was to examine the phylogenetic ...
Genotoxicity of water extracts from hypoxis species
Many of these plants, or preparations thereof, have shown their efficacy over the years but they have not been screened for potential adverse health effects as is the practice for modern medicines. It is ...
Genetic re-identification and antifungal susceptibility testing of Aspergillus section Nigri strains of the BCCM/IHEM collection.
Black Aspergilli are widely distributed in the environment and are frequently reported as causative agents of different types of mycoses. Many taxonomical revisions have been made, and presently 19 ...
Characterization of new Alternaria alternata--specific rat monoclonal antibodies.
fungus, contaminant of food products and important cause of both allergic rhinitis and asthma, have been characterized. These three mAbs are all of IgM isotype. Two antibodies, A1 and F10, were ...