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12 Weeks of Combined Endurance and Resistance Training Reduces Innate Markers of Inflammation in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

A Penalized Likelihood Approach to Estimate Within-Household Contact Networks from Egocentric Data ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

A bimodal flexible distribution for lifetime data

A dynamic dosimetry model for radioactive exposure scenarios in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 16 January 2014

A flexible method to model HIV serodiscordance among couples in Mozambique

scientific article

A flexible semiparametric regression model for bimodal, asymmetric and censored data ⬇️

scholarly article

A household-based study of contact networks relevant for the spread of infectious diseases in the highlands of Peru

scientific article

A mathematical model for HIV and hepatitis C co-infection and its assessment from a statistical perspective

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

A nice day for an infection? Weather conditions and social contact patterns relevant to influenza transmission

scientific article

A nonparametric approach to weighted estimating equations for regression analysis with missing covariates

article

A prospect on the use of antiviral drugs to control local outbreaks of COVID-19

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

A sensitivity analysis for shared-parameter models for incomplete longitudinal outcomes

scientific article published on February 2010

A simple periodic-forced model for dengue fitted to incidence data in Singapore

scientific article

A systematic review and meta-regression analysis of mivacurium for tracheal intubation

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Active learning to understand infectious disease models and improve policy making

scientific article

Adaptive change-point mixed models applied to data on outpatient tetracycline use in Europe

Age differences between sexual partners, behavioural and demographic correlates, and HIV infection on Likoma Island, Malawi

scientific article

Age-disparity, sexual connectedness and HIV infection in disadvantaged communities around Cape Town, South Africa: a study protocol

scientific article

An ODE-based mixed modelling approach for B- and T-cell dynamics induced by Varicella-Zoster Virus vaccines in adults shows higher T-cell proliferation with Shingrix compared to Varilrix

Analysing the composition of outpatient antibiotic use: a tutorial on compositional data analysis

scientific article

Animal Ownership and Touching Enrich the Context of Social Contacts Relevant to the Spread of Human Infectious Diseases

scientific article

Antibiotic use and resistance in Belgium: the impact of two decades of multi-faceted campaigning

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Antimicrobial Drug Use and Macrolide-ResistantStreptococcus pyogenes, Belgium ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Application of mixed-effects models to study the country-specific outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: a tutorial on longitudinal data analysis

scientific article

Appropriate international measures for outpatient antibiotic prescribing and consumption: recommendations from a national data comparison of different measures

scientific article

Are we hitting immunity targets? The 2006 age-specific seroprevalence of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and tetanus in Belgium

article

Assessing mumps outbreak risk in highly vaccinated populations using spatial seroprevalence data

scientific article

Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of household-pooled universal testing to control COVID-19 epidemics

scientific article published on 09 March 2021

Assessing the relationship between epidemic growth scaling and epidemic size: The 2014-16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa ⬇️

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Assessing the risk of measles resurgence in a highly vaccinated population: Belgium anno 2013.

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

CAREGIVERS’ WILLINGNESS TO PAY TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VACCINE INJECTIONS IN INFANTS

scientific article published in 2009

Capture-Recapture Estimators in Epidemiology with Applications to Pertussis and Pneumococcal Invasive Disease Surveillance.

scientific article

Cell Type-Associated Differences in Migration, Survival, and Immunogenicity following Grafting in CNS Tissue

scientific article published on 02 April 2012

Classification trees versus multinomial models in the analysis of urban farming systems in Central Africa

article

Coital frequency and condom use in monogamous and concurrent sexual relationships in Cape Town, South Africa

scientific article published on 24 April 2013

Comment on: Measurement units for antibiotic consumption in outpatients

scientific article published in 2014

Common attitudes about concomitant vaccine injections for infants and adolescents in Flanders, Belgium

article

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) hospitalizations and deaths: is there a role for quality improvement through inter-hospital comparisons?

scientific article published on 20 November 2015

Comparison of HeLa-I, HEp-2 and NCI-H292 cell lines for the isolation of human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV).

scientific article published on 7 September 2007

Concurrent partnerships in Cape Town, South Africa: race and sex differences in prevalence and duration of overlap

scientific article

Contribution of respiratory pathogens to influenza-like illness consultations ⬇️

scientific article published on 06 December 2012

Correction: Animal Ownership and Touching Enrich the Context of Social Contacts Relevant to the Spread of Human Infectious Diseases

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Correction: Capture-Recapture Estimators in Epidemiology with Applications to Pertussis and Pneumococcal Invasive Disease Surveillance

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Cost-effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination in pregnant women, health care workers and persons with underlying illnesses in Belgium.

scientific article published on 18 September 2014

Cost-effectiveness of vaccination against herpes zoster in adults aged over 60 years in Belgium

scientific article

Creating a robust framework for the analysis of cryopreserved samples in quantitative immunological experiments

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

Cuprizone-induced demyelination and demyelination-associated inflammation result in different proton magnetic resonance metabolite spectra

scientific article

Current levels of gonorrhoea screening in MSM in Belgium may have little effect on prevalence: a modelling study.

scientific article published in February 2018

Cytomegalovirus seropositivity is associated with herpes zoster

scientific article published in June 2015

Data mining for longitudinal data under multicollinearity and time dependence using penalized generalized estimating equations

article

Data-driven methods for imputing national-level incidence in global burden of disease studies.

scientific article

Determinants of between-country differences in ambulatory antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in Europe: a longitudinal observational study

scientific article published on 29 September 2013

Determinants of generalized herpes simplex virus-2 epidemics: the role of sexual partner concurrency ⬇️

scientific article published on June 14, 2013

Differences in gut microbiota composition between obese and lean children: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Different transmission patterns in the early stages of the influenza A(H1N1)v pandemic: a comparative analysis of 12 European countries.

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Distinct in vitro properties of embryonic and extraembryonic fibroblast-like cells are reflected in their in vivo behavior following grafting in the adult mouse brain.

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Distinct spatial distribution of microglia and macrophages following mesenchymal stem cell implantation in mouse brain.

scientific article published on July 2014

Dynamic Epidemiological Models for Dengue Transmission: A Systematic Review of Structural Approaches ⬇️

scientific article published on November 6, 2012

Dynamics of HPV vaccination initiation in Flanders (Belgium) 2007-2009: a Cox regression model

scientific article

Early Inflammatory Responses Following Cell Grafting in the CNS Trigger Activation of the Subventricular Zone: A Proposed Model of Sequential Cellular Events

scientific article published on 14 July 2014

Early detection of chronic hepatitis B and risk factor assessment in Turkish migrants, Middle Limburg, Belgium

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Early waning of maternal measles antibodies in era of measles elimination: longitudinal study

scientific article

Economic and social impact of increased cardiac rehabilitation uptake and cardiac telerehabilitation in Belgium - a cost-benefit analysis.

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Effect of Prepregnancy Pertussis Vaccination in Young Infants

scientific article

Effect of a Prepregnancy Pertussis Booster Dose on Maternal Antibody Titers in Young Infants

scientific article published in 2011

Effect of comprehensive cardiac telerehabilitation on one-year cardiovascular rehospitalization rate, medical costs and quality of life: A cost-effectiveness analysis

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Efficacy of daily intake of Lactobacillus casei Shirota on respiratory symptoms and influenza vaccination immune response: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in healthy elderly nursing home residents

article

Eight years of the Great Influenza Survey to monitor influenza-like illness in Flanders

scientific article

Estimating Time of Infection Using Prior Serological and Individual Information Can Greatly Improve Incidence Estimation of Human and Wildlife Infections

scientific article

Estimating Transmission Parameters for COVID-19 Clusters by Using Symptom Onset Data, Singapore, January-April 2020

publication published on 01 February 2021

Estimating dynamic transmission model parameters for seasonal influenza by fitting to age and season-specific influenza-like illness incidence

scientific article published on 2 May 2015

Estimating herd-specific force of infection by using random-effects models for clustered binary data and monotone fractional polynomials

article

Estimating infectious disease parameters from data on social contacts and serological status

article

Estimating the age-specific duration of herpes zoster vaccine protection: a matter of model choice?

scientific article published on October 2011

Estimating the effective reproduction number for pandemic influenza from notification data made publicly available in real time: a multi-country analysis for influenza A/H1N1v 2009.

scientific article

Estimating the force of infection for HCV in injecting drug users using interval-censored data

scientific article

Estimating the impact of school closure on social mixing behaviour and the transmission of close contact infections in eight European countries.

scientific article

Estimating the impact of vaccination using age-time-dependent incidence rates of hepatitis B

article

Estimating the incidence of symptomatic rotavirus infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Estimating the population prevalence and force of infection directly from antibody titres

article

Estimating the spatial covariance structure using the geoadditive model

article

Estimating vaccination coverage for the trivalent measles-mumps-rubella vaccine from trivariate serological data

scientific article

Estimating vaccine coverage from serial trivariate serologic data in the presence of waning immunity.

scientific article published on May 2015

Estimation of the burden of varicella in Europe before the introduction of universal childhood immunization

scientific article

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient antibiotic use in Europe (1997-2009).

scientific article

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient cephalosporin use in Europe (1997-2009)

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European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient cephalosporin use in Europe (1997-2009).

scientific article

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient macrolide, lincosamide and streptogramin (MLS) use in Europe (1997-2009).

scientific article published in December 2011

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient penicillin use in Europe (1997-2009).

scientific article published in December 2011

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient quinolone use in Europe (1997-2009).

scientific article published in December 2011

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): outpatient use of tetracyclines, sulphonamides and trimethoprim, and other antibacterials in Europe (1997-2009).

scientific article published in December 2011

Evaluating audio computer assisted self-interviews in urban South African communities: evidence for good suitability and reduced social desirability bias of a cross-sectional survey on sexual behaviour

scientific article

Exploring the association between resistance and outpatient antibiotic use expressed as DDDs or packages

scientific article published on 12 January 2015

Exploring the impact of exposure to primary varicella in children on varicella-zoster virus immunity of parents

scientific article published in April 2011

Factors associated with HIV serodiscordance among couples in Mozambique: Comparison of the 2009 INSIDA and 2015 IMASIDA surveys

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

From non school-based, co-payment to school-based, free Human Papillomavirus vaccination in Flanders (Belgium): a retrospective cohort study describing vaccination coverage, age-specific coverage and socio-economic inequalities

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Generalized shared-parameter models and missingness at random

HIV Susceptibility Among Migrant Miners in Chokwe: A Case Study

scientific article

Handling missingness when modeling the force of infection from clustered seroprevalence data

article by Niel Hens et al published December 2007 in Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Histological characterization and quantification of cellular events following neural and fibroblast(-like) stem cell grafting in healthy and demyelinated CNS tissue.

scientific article published on January 2014

Human papillomavirus 16 load and E2/E6 ratio in HPV16-positive women: biomarkers for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia >or=2 in a liquid-based cytology setting?

scientific article

Imputing QALYs from single time point health state descriptions on the EQ-5D and the SF-6D: a comparison of methods for hepatitis a patients.

scientific article published on 5 February 2011

Infant vaccination coverage in 2005 and predictive factors for complete or valid vaccination in Flanders, Belgium: an EPI-survey

scientific article published on 4 April 2007

Inferring age-specific differences in susceptibility to and infectiousness upon SARS-CoV-2 infection based on Belgian social contact data

scientific article published on 30 March 2022

Inferring rubella outbreak risk from seroprevalence data in Belgium

scientific article

Influenza epidemic surveillance and prediction based on electronic health record data from an out-of-hours general practitioner cooperative: model development and validation on 2003-2015 data

scientific article

Integrating between-host transmission and within-host immunity to analyze the impact of varicella vaccination on zoster

scientific article published on 11 July 2015

Interleukin-13 immune gene therapy prevents CNS inflammation and demyelination via alternative activation of microglia and macrophages

scientific article

Intracerebral transplantation of interleukin 13-producing mesenchymal stem cells limits microgliosis, oligodendrocyte loss and demyelination in the cuprizone mouse model.

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Intradermal zoster vaccines: good for the old and the young?

scientific article published on 06 April 2016

Kernel weighted influence measures

article published in 2005

Kicking against the pricks: vaccine sceptics have a different social orientation

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Kinetics of maternal antibodies against rubella and varicella in infants

scientific article published in 2011

Like mother, like daughter? Mother's history of cervical cancer screening and daughter's Human Papillomavirus vaccine uptake in Flanders (Belgium).

scientific article

Living on three time scales: the dynamics of plasma cell and antibody populations illustrated for hepatitis a virus

scientific article

Long-term antibody persistence after vaccination with a 2-dose Havrix (inactivated hepatitis A vaccine): 20 years of observed data, and long-term model-based predictions

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Mapping maternal mortality rate via spatial zero-inflated models for count data: A case study of facility-based maternal deaths from Mozambique

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Maternal mumps antibodies in a cohort of children up to the age of 1 year

Measuring trends of outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: jointly modelling longitudinal data in defined daily doses and packages

scientific article

Medium-Term Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Internet-Based and Patient-Specific Telerehabilitation Program With Text Messaging Support for Cardiac Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Mental fatigue impairs soccer-specific decision-making skill

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Mining social mixing patterns for infectious disease models based on a two-day population survey in Belgium

scientific article

Model based estimates of long-term persistence of inactivated hepatitis A vaccine-induced antibodies in adults

scientific article published on 07 February 2014

Model selection for incomplete and design-based samples

scientific article published in July 2006

Model selection in regression based on pre-smoothing

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Model structure analysis to estimate basic immunological processes and maternal risk for parvovirus B19

scientific article

Model-based inference for small area estimation with sampling weights

scientific article published on 14 October 2016

Modeling heterogeneity for count data: A study of maternal mortality in health facilities in Mozambique

scientific article

Modeling individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of recurrent infections: an application to parvovirus B19.

scientific article published on 2 July 2014

Modelling distortions in seroprevalence data using change-point fractional polynomials

Modelling multisera data: the estimation of new joint and conditional epidemiological parameters

scientific article

Modelling the impact of local reactive school closures on critical care provision during an influenza pandemic

scientific article published on 2 February 2011

Multi-disease analysis of maternal antibody decay using non-linear mixed models accounting for censoring

scientific article published on 24 April 2015

New regression model with four regression structures and computational aspects ⬇️

scholarly article

On the estimation of the reproduction number based on misreported epidemic data

scientific article

Optimizing agent-based transmission models for infectious diseases

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Optimizing the case-crossover design for use in shared exposure settings

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

OutbreakTools: a new platform for disease outbreak analysis using the R software

scientific article (publication date: June 2014)

P3.065 Partner-Concurrency Associated with HSV-2 Infection in Young South Africans

Partner-concurrency associated with herpes simplex virus 2 infection in young South Africans

scientific article published on 19 July 2013

Parvovirus B19 infection in five European countries: seroepidemiology, force of infection and maternal risk of infection

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Patient and prescriber determinants for the choice between amoxicillin and broader-spectrum antibiotics: a nationwide prescription-level analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on May 16, 2013

Persistence of antimicrobial resistance in respiratory streptococci

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Belgium: Follow-up of infants until 1 month after the fourth infant pertussis vaccination at 15 months of age.

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Belgium: Results of a prospective controlled cohort study

scientific article

Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Vietnam: Results of a randomized controlled trial Pertussis vaccination during pregnancy

scientific article published on 31 October 2015

Plasmodium vivax morbidity after radical cure: A cohort study in Central Vietnam.

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Prevalence and trend estimation from observational data with highly variable post-stratification weights ⬇️

Prevalence of high-risk human papillomavirus and abnormal pap smears in female sex workers compared to the general population in Antwerp, Belgium

scientific article

Prognostic and predictive aspects of the tumor immune microenvironment and immune checkpoints in malignant pleural mesothelioma

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Public preferences over efficiency, equity and autonomy in vaccination policy: an empirical study

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Quantitative and phenotypic analysis of mesenchymal stromal cell graft survival and recognition by microglia and astrocytes in mouse brain

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Rapid Exercise-Induced Mobilization of Dendritic Cells Is Potentially Mediated by a Flt3L- and MMP-9-Dependent Process in Multiple Sclerosis

scientific article

Revealing age-specific past and future unrelated costs of pneumococcal infections by flexible generalized estimating equations

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Robust reconstruction and analysis of outbreak data: influenza A(H1N1)v transmission in a school-based population

scientific article

SOCRATES: An online tool leveraging a social contact data sharing initiative to assess mitigation strategies for COVID-19

scientific article (preprint)

Sampling site matters when counting lymphocyte subpopulations

scientific article

Serology indicates cytomegalovirus infection is associated with varicella-zoster virus reactivation

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

Seventy-five years of estimating the force of infection from current status data

scientific article

Short-term associations between legionnaires' disease incidence and meteorological variables in Belgium, 2011-2019

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

SimpactCyan 1.0: An Open-source Simulator for Individual-Based Models in HIV Epidemiology with R and Python Interfaces

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Simulation-based evaluation of the performance of the F test in a linear multilevel model setting with sparseness at the level of the primary unit

scientific article

Social contact patterns in Vietnam and implications for the control of infectious diseases

scientific article

Social contacts and mixing patterns relevant to the spread of infectious diseases

scientific article (publication date: 25 March 2008)

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ebola Virus Disease at Sub-National Level during the 2014 West Africa Epidemic: Model Scrutiny and Data Meagreness

scientific article

Structural differences in mixing behavior informing the role of asymptomatic infection and testing symptom heritability

scientific article published on 24 December 2016

The Belgian policy of funding antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals and trends of selected quality indicators for antimicrobial use, 1999-2010: a longitudinal study

scientific article

The Effect of Maternal Pertussis Immunization on Infant Vaccine Responses to a Booster Pertussis-Containing Vaccine in Vietnam

scientific article published on December 2016

The French Connection: The First Large Population-Based Contact Survey in France Relevant for the Spread of Infectious Diseases

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

The correlated and shared gamma frailty model for bivariate current status data: an illustration for cross-sectional serological data

scientific article

The effect of apoptotic cells on virus-specific immune responses detected using IFN-gamma ELISPOT.

scientific article published on 6 March 2010

The impact of illness on social networks: implications for transmission and control of influenza

scientific article published on 07 October 2013

The impact of non-financial and financial encouragements on participation in non school-based human papillomavirus vaccination: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article

The nature of sensitivity in monotone missing not at random models

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The seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus infection in Belgium anno 2002 and 2006: a comparative analysis with hepatitis A virus seroprevalence.

scientific article published in January 2019

The social contact hypothesis under the assumption of endemic equilibrium: Elucidating the transmission potential of VZV in Europe

scientific article

Timeliness of infant vaccination and factors related with delay in Flanders, Belgium

scientific article published on 16 November 2013

Using empirical social contact data to model person to person infectious disease transmission: an illustration for varicella

scientific article

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