Projects
Quantification of varicella-zoster virus boosting mechanisms with their public health implications for vaccination. University of Antwerp
Lifting barriers towards obtaining actionable public health information from pathogen genomes: model advancement, performance evaluation and application to respiratory syncytial virus types A and B KU Leuven
Molecular epidemiology approaches can glean epidemiological information from pathogen genomes, and have grown into an important instrument across infectious disease research. Harnessing these methods for actionable information to public health -an important goal in e.g. HIV research- requires the ability to obtain timely and unbiased information on key epidemic processes such as migration. The adoption of model-based phylogenetic inference of ...
The scourge of unverified and spurious "penicillin allergy": a preventable clinical and public health menace. University of Antwerp
Impact of multi-mycotoxin exposure on kidney cancer risk: uniting a large-scale epidemiological design & next-generation sequencing coupled with public cancer genomic data mining Ghent University
Mycotoxins are fungal toxins that frequently contaminate food & feed, and can contribute to a
diversity of adverse health effects in humans such as carcinogenicity and nephrotoxicity. The kidney
is a major target of mycotoxins. In addition, multiple mycotoxins can co-occur on one crop due to
multi-fungal contamination. Interactions between co-occurring mycotoxins can be additive or
synergistic. ...
Underlying dimensions of population health: a longitudinal multicountry analysis of health production and health system's efficiency. University of Antwerp
In vivo study of public good inhibitors as a new evolution-proof antimicrobial strategy against catheter-associated urinary tract infections attributed to UPEC KU Leuven
There is an urgent need for a next generation of antimicrobial drugs to fight bacterial contaminations and infections. The once so successful antibiotics are becoming less efficient treatment strategies due to the rapid development and spread of resistance. In addition, bacteria predominantly live in dense biofilm communities where they are embedded in a self-produced protective matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which ...
New knowledge of public data in the life sciences. Ghent University
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Critical environmental characteristics of public spaces that encourage young people to physical activity Ghent University
Critical environmental characteristics of public spaces that encourage young people to physical activity
Deliberative public engagement on heritable human genome editing: South African & Flemish young adults Ghent University
Via the method of ‘virtual deliberative public engagement’ we can gain insight into the public opinion
on highly complex matters such as heritable human genome editing. In a previous study in the South
African (SA) context, participants in culturally mixed groups who engaged critically with policy
questions on this topic based their arguments on shared values enshrined by the South African
Constitution. However, since ...