Publications
Genomic Epidemiology of 2015-2016 Zika Virus Outbreak in Cape Verde KU Leuven
Resurgence risk for measles, mumps and rubella in France in 2018 and 2020 Hasselt University University of Antwerp
The origin of Ebola Institute of Tropical Medicine
In December 2013, a two-year-old child died from viral haemorrhagic fever in Méliandou village in the South-East of Guinea, and constituted the likely index case of a major epidemic. When the virus was formally identified as Ebola, epidemiologists started to investigate the chains of transmission, while local people were trying to make sense out of these deaths. The epidemic control measures taken by national and international health agencies ...
Typing of Pneumocystis jirovecii by multilocus sequencing: evidence of outbreak? KU Leuven
Lessons learned from a textbook outbreak Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: On 5 June 2012 several enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, EHEC, O157:H7 infections were reported to the public health authorities of Limburg.
METHODS: We performed a case-control study, a trace back/forward investigation and compared strains isolated from human cases and food samples. A case was defined as anyone with a laboratory-confirmed E. coli O157:H7-infection in North-East Limburg from May 30 2012 till July 15 ...