Lewandowska, Anna Rudzki, Grzegorz Lewandowski, Tomasz Rudzki, Sławomir
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International journal of environmental research and public health
(1) Background: As the literature analysis shows, cancer patients experience a variety of different needs. Each patient reacts differently to the hardships of the illness. Assessment of needs allows providing more effective support, relevant to every person's individual experience, and is necessary for setting priorities for resource allocation, fo...
Bokma, Jade Gille, Linde De Bleecker, Koen Callens, Jozefien Haesebrouck, Freddy Pardon, Bart Boyen, Filip
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Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
Mycoplasma bovis is an important pathogen causing mostly pneumonia in calves and mastitis in dairy cattle. In the absence of an effective vaccine, antimicrobial therapy remains the main control measure. Antimicrobial use in veal calves is substantially higher than in conventional herds, but whether veal calves also harbor more resistant M. bovis st...
Pouwels, Koen B Vansteelandt, Stijn Batra, Rahul Edgeworth, Jonathan Wordsworth, Sarah Robotham, Julie V
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Studies estimating excess length of stay (LOS) attributable to nosocomial infections have failed to address time-varying confounding, likely leading to overestimation of their impact. We present a methodology based on inverse probability-weighted survival curves to address this limitation. A case study focusing on intensive care unit-acquired bacte...
Miclotte, Lisa De Paepe, Kim Rymenans, Leen Callewaert, Chris Raes, Jeroen Rajkovic, Andreja Van Camp, John Van de Wiele, Tom
The use of additives in food products has become an important public health concern. In recent reports, dietary emulsifiers have been shown to affect the gut microbiota, contributing to a pro-inflammatory phenotype and metabolic syndrome. So far, it is not yet known whether similar microbiome shifts are observable for a more diverse set of emulsifi...
León, Yrvin Zapata, Lionel Molina, Raúl E Okanovič, Gaj Gómez, Leonardo A Daza-Castro, Carla Flores-Concha, Manuel Reyes, José L Oñate, Angel A
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Vaccines
Shigellosis is a diarrheal disease and the World Health Organization prompts the development of a vaccine against Shigella flexneri. The autotransporters SigA, Pic and Sap are conserved among Shigella spp. We previously designed an in silico vaccine with immunodominat epitopes from those autotransporters, and the GroEL protein of S. typhi as an adj...
Luz, C F Vollmer, M Decruyenaere, J Nijsten, M W Glasner, C Sinha, B
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Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in many areas of health care. Its use in infection management is catching up as identified in a recent review in this journal. We present here a complementary review to this work. To support clinicians and researchers in navigating through the methodological aspects of ML approaches in the field of i...
Van Praet, Jens T. Coene, Ann-Sofie Van De Moortele, Kris Descheemaeker, Patrick Reynders, Marijke
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Infection
A subset of patients with Covid-19 presents with negative RT-PCR screening but suspect CT findings. Using four commercially available anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG immuno-assays, we found this subset constituted 9.2% of all consecutively admitted outpatients with Covid-19 in our hospital. Clinical specificity for Covid-19 of some N protein-based immuno-assay...
Suchomel, Miranda Eggers, Maren Maier, Steffen Kramer, Axel Dancer, Stephanie J Pittet, Didier
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Emerging infectious diseases
As a result of the coronavirus disease pandemic, commercial hand hygiene products have become scarce and World Health Organization (WHO) alcohol-based hand rub formulations containing ethanol or isopropanol are being produced for hospitals worldwide. Neither WHO formulation meets European Norm 12791, the basis for approval as a surgical hand prepar...
Vandoorn, Elien Leroux-Roels, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Geert Parys, Anna Vincent, Amy Van Reeth, Kristien
Most H1 influenza A viruses (IAVs) of swine are derived from past human viruses. As human population immunity against these IAVs gradually decreases, the risk of reintroduction to humans increases. We examined 549 serum samples from persons 0-97 years of age collected in Belgium during 2017-2018 for hemagglutination inhibiting and virus neutralizin...
Catteau, Lucy Dauby, Nicolas Montourcy, Marion Bottieau, Emmanuel Hautekiet, Joris Goetghebeur, Els van Ierssel, Sabrina Duysburgh, Els Van Oyen, Herman Wyndham-Thomas, Chloé
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International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been largely used and investigated as therapy for COVID-19 across various settings at a total dose usually ranging from 2400 mg to 9600 mg. In Belgium, off-label use of low-dose HCQ (total 2400 mg over 5 days) was recommended for hospitalised patients with COVID-19. We conducted a retrospective analysis of in-hospital m...
