Publications
Enterobacter pulveris sp. nov., isolated from fruit powder, infant formula and an infant formula production environment Ghent University
Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome in the first year of life are associated with inter-kingdom community dynamics and infant nutrition. Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Father-infant interactions and infant regional brain volumes : a cross-sectional MRI study Ghent University
Infant feeding practice and gastrointestinal tolerance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
BACKGROUND: Signs of feeding intolerance, such as gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, are frequently observed in otherwise healthy formula-fed infants in the first months of life. The primary objective of this observational study was to examine GI tolerance in formula-fed infants (FFI) vs. breastfed infants (BFI) in a real-world setting with a secondary objective being the comparison of infants fed formula with pre- and/or probiotics (FFI_PP) and ...
Amsterdam infant stool scale is more useful for assessing children who have not been toilet trained than Bristol stool scale Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Trends in serotype prevalence in invasive pneumococcal disease before and after infant pneumococcal vaccination in Belgium, 2002-2010 Institute of Tropical Medicine KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the effect of the infant 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) program on the serotype distribution in invasive pneumococcal disease in the Belgian population.
METHODS: Serotyping was performed on 13,998 bacteraemic and pleural fluid isolates sent to the National Reference Laboratory between 2002 and 2010. We compared the distribution of serogroups (SGs) between the pre- (2002-2004) and post-PCV7 ...