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Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Belgium: Report 2014
inhabitants, highest in Brussels and lowest in Wallonia. The peak in incidence around 2008 has diminished and stabilised in 2010-2011, but at an elevated level. In 2013, the mean CDI incidence for 105 hospitals ...
Using mortality follow-up of surveys to estimate social inequalities in healthy life years.
Conditions (SILC). The mortality follow-up of these surveys were used to calculate HLY by educational level at age 25. These HLY were compared with HLY estimates calculated using the mortality follow-up of the ...
Premature mortality in Belgium in 1993-2009: leading causes, regional disparities and 15 years change.
mortality, Wallonia experiences a clear disadvantage compared to Flanders. Brussels shows an intermediate level for natural causes, but ranks differently for external causes, with less road accidents and ...
The combination of attenuated Newcastle disease (ND) vaccine with rHVT-ND vaccine at 1 day old is more protective against ND virus challenge than when combined with inactivated ND vaccine.
are failing to sufficiently induce the high levels of immunity necessary to control ND. There is a need for vaccination programmes that could be initiated at 1-day-old for mass application and which ...
Comparison of single 1-day-old chick vaccination using a Newcastle disease virus vector with a prime/boost vaccination scheme against a highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 challenge.
boost with an inactivated H5N9 vaccine (iH5N9). The heterologous prime/boost rNDV- H5 /iH5N9 combination afforded the best level of protection against the H5N1 challenge performed at 6 weeks of age. Two ...
Attendance at cervical cancer screening and use of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures on the uterine cervix assessed from individual health insurance data (Belgium, 2002-2006).
RESULTS: Cervical cancer screening coverage was 61% at national level, for the target population of women between 25 and 64 years old, in the period 2004-2006. Differences between the 3 regions were small, ...
Determination of caramel colorants' by-products in liquid foods by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS).
colours and are transferred to the processed food. These contaminants are known to have a toxicological profile that may pose health risks. Hence, to characterise THI, 2- and 4- MI and 5- HMF levels in ...
Protocol of the PSYCHOTSH study: association between neonatal thyroid stimulating hormone concentration and intellectual, psychomotor and psychosocial development at 4-5 year of age: a retrospective cohort study.
may affect the neurodevelopment of the offspring. In several studies, elevated TSH levels at birth were associated with suboptimal cognitive and psychomotor outcomes among young children. This paper ...
What determines inclusion in the early phase of the type 2 diabetes care trajectory in Belgium?
the prevalence of reasons for non-inclusion as reported by GP s. Furthermore, bivariate associations between patient-level parameters and inclusion were analysed. Finally, any patient-level parameters ...
Falls among older general practice patients: a 2-year nationwide surveillance study.
with increasing age, recurrent falling, falling at home and during lower level activity. The clustering of frailty-specific fall risks was higher than expected by chance. At follow-up, 46% of at-risk ...