Résultats de la recherche - 29 results
Holography-based aerobiological monitoring: a 2-year intercomparison campaign versus the standard Hirst method in Brussels, Belgium
alder, hazel and hornbeam) and an estimated 18% to grass pollen. To prevent and treat respiratory symptoms and reduce the allergy burden, pollen grain concentrations have been continuously monitored using ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
characterization had only been achieved in a handful of studies, and had not been proven possible when more than one strain of the same species were present. Moreover, the genome obtained from metagenomics sequences ...
Variability in the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and mortality by exposure assessment method and covariate adjustment: A census-based country-wide cohort study
Environmental hazard exposure assessment health effects population-based Survival Analysis Abstract: Background Ambient air pollution exposure has been associated with higher mortality risk in numerous studies. ...
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 ...
4DEMON: Integrating 40 Years of Data on PCB and Metal Contamination in Marine Sediments of the Belgian Part of the North Sea
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB s) and metals in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS). Multiple challenges were encountered: sampling locations changed over time, different analytical methods were applied, ...
Residential green space and medication sales for childhood asthma: A longitudinal ecological study in Belgium
Pediatric asthma Residential green space respiratory health Abstract: Background: Living in green environments has been associated with various health benefits, but the evidence for positive effects on ...
Comparison of SNP-based subtyping workflows for bacterial isolates using WGS data, applied to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium and serotype 1,4,[5],12:i:.
Besides the technological advances which have pushed the approach forward, the last years have been marked by considerable evolution of the whole genome sequencing data analysis methods. Prior to ...
Scientific opinion on Malachite green in food
Mutation occurrence ON PRODUCTS public public health Public-health RANGE rats response risk survey surveys THYROID Type use Weight Abstract: Malachite green (MG) has been used globally in aquaculture but is ...
Analysis of the short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy medication sales
antihistamine sales has been investigated with times series analysis. 8 pollen and 2 spore species were tested for different age and gender categories. A generalized linear model was used and adjusted for air ...
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 ...