Résultats de la recherche - 16 results
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 ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
inhabitants, ECDC report 2016). This increasing trend is mainly due to an increase of non-maternal-neonatal (n- MN) cases, since maternal-neonatal (MN) cases have been decreasing over the years. This latter is ...
Association between variables used in the field substitution and post-stratification adjustment in the Belgian health interview survey and non-response.
Young adult Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Field substitution and post-stratification adjustment have been proposed to reduce non-response bias in population surveys. We investigated if variables involved in those ...
Assessment of pfcrt 72-76 haplotypes eight years after chloroquine withdrawal in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
treatment policy in 2002 and an artesunate (AS)-amodiaquine (AQ) combination became the ACT of choice in DRC in 2005. AQ-resistance (AQR) has been reported in several parts of the world and mutations in ...
National surveillance of nosocomial infections in neonatal intensive care units in Belgium (Neo-KISS)
benchmarking. A significant heterogenity in morbidity and mortality between NICU s was found during the national intensive care benchmarking 2004-2008 report (NICAUDIT), which might have been due to differences ...
A targeted proteomics method to detect urinary biomarkers of kidney disease
outcome. In the last decade there has been an extensive search for new blood and urinary biomarkers. With the evolution of new technologies, such as proteomics, several candidate protein biomarkers emerged ...
Characterization of new Alternaria alternata-specific rat monoclonal antibodies
antibodies (mAbs) recognizing the spores from Alternaria alternata, a plant pathogenic fungus, contaminant of food products and important cause of both allergic rhinitis and asthma, have been characterized. ...
Multiple risk behaviour: increasing socio-economic gap over time?
behaviours, has been analysed with the purpose to assess socio-economic changes in multiple risk behaviour over time. METHODS: Cross-sectional data from the Belgian Health Interview Surveys 1997, 2001 and 2004 ...
Does a national screening programme reduce socioeconomic inequalities in mammography use?
later (2004), and to assess if the implementation of an organised screening programme has been successful in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in the uptake of mammography. METHODS: Data was obtained ...
Disseminated Scedosporium apiospermum infection in a cystic fibrosis patient after double-lung transplantation
localized to invasive infections. S apiospermum has been described as one of the major fungal agents of chronic colonization of airways in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Invasive infections due to ...