Publicaties
Rheumatic fever: a forgotten but still existing cause of fever of unknown origin detected on FDG PET/CT KU Leuven
The Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project (SEAP), Severe Typhoid Fever Surveillance in Africa (SETA), Surveillance of Enteric Fever in India (SEFI), and Strategic Typhoid Alliance Across Africa and Asia (STRATAA) population-based enteric fever st Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde KU Leuven
Building on previous multicountry surveillance studies of typhoid and others salmonelloses such as the Diseases of the Most Impoverished program and the Typhoid Surveillance in Africa Project, several ongoing blood culture surveillance studies are generating important data about incidence, severity, transmission, and clinical features of invasive Salmonella infections in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These studies are also characterizing ...
How can the typhoid fever surveillance in Africa and the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa programs contribute to the introduction of typhoid conjugate vaccines? Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde KU Leuven
Background: The World Health Organization now recommends the use of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) in typhoid-endemic countries, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, added TCVs into the portfolio of subsidized vaccines. Data from the Severe Typhoid Fever in Africa (SETA) program were used to contribute to TCV introduction decision-making processes, exemplified for Ghana and Madagascar.
Methods: Data collected from both countries were ...
Seroconversion and antibody persistence after yellow fever vaccination in people living with HIV: impact of baseline HIV viral load and yellow fever seropositivity Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: Data on seroconversion rates following yellow fever (YF) vaccine and effect of revaccination in people living with HIV (PLWH) are scarce. We aimed at determining key factors for seroconversion after YF vaccine in PLWH and the role of preexisting neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) at vaccination.
METHODS: A retrospective cross-sectional study at several timepoints in two Belgian AIDS Reference Center. For each individual, ...