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List of works by Denis Piérard

A Belgian Serosurveillance/Seroprevalence Study of Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis Using a Luminex xMAP Technology-Based Pentaplex.

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

A Practical Method to Implement Strain-Level Metagenomics-Based Foodborne Outbreak Investigation and Source Tracking in Routine

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Acute sore throat in children at the emergency department: best medical practice?

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Anaerobic bacteraemia: a 10-year retrospective epidemiological survey.

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Antibiotic Prescriptions Targeting Bacterial Respiratory Infections in Admitted Patients with COVID-19: A Prospective Observational Study

scientific article published on 16 September 2021

Banana infecting fungus, Fusarium musae, is also an opportunistic human pathogen: are bananas potential carriers and source of fusariosis?

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

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

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Case series of patients with Fusobacterium nucleatum bacteremia with emphasis on the presence of cancer.

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Centor criteria in children in a paediatric emergency department: for what it is worth.

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Characteristics of Shiga toxin producing- and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli of the emerging serotype O80:H2 isolated from humans and diarrhoeic calves in Belgium

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Correction of underquantification of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 load with the second version of the Roche Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan assay

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

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Culturomics to Investigate the Endometrial Microbiome: Proof-of-Concept

scientific article published in 2022

Detection of Shiga toxin-producing and other diarrheagenic Escherichia coli by the BioFire FilmArray® Gastrointestinal Panel in human fecal samples

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Detection of beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin resistance in Haemophilus influenzae in Belgium

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Development of a national EUCAST challenge panel for antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Differential dynamics and impacts of prophages and plasmids on the pangenome and virulence factor repertoires of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O145:H28

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Diphtheria in Belgium: 2010-2017

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Emergence of livestock-associated MRSA isolated from cystic fibrosis patients: Result of a Belgian national survey

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Enteroaggregative Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli of serotype O104:H4 in Belgium and Luxembourg.

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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O26:H11/H-: a new virulent clone emerges in Europe

scientific article published in February 2013

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O80:H2 in Young Calves with Diarrhea, Belgium.

scientific article published in December 2017

Eradication of chronic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in cystic fibrosis patients. An observational prospective cohort study of 11 patients

scientific article published on May 21, 2013

Evaluation of the Alere SHIGA TOXIN QUIK CHEK™ in comparison to multiplex Shiga toxin PCR.

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Evaluation of the Copan Myco-TB kit for the decontamination of respiratory samples for the detection of Mycobacteria.

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Fear for CoViD-19 and reluctance to work among health care workers during the epidemic, a prospective monocentric cohort study

scientific article published on 12 November 2021

Fecal Microbial Transplantation in Early-Onset Colitis: Caution Advised

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Just a Fancy Trend?

scientific article published on July 2015

Fourth Belgian multicentre survey of antibiotic susceptibility of anaerobic bacteria.

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

Fusarium musae infected banana fruits as potential source of human fusariosis: May occur more frequently than we might think and hypotheses about infection

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2016)

Fusobacterium necrophorum and other Fusobacterium spp. isolated from head and neck infections: A 10-year epidemiology study in an academic hospital

scientific article published on 16 May 2015

Genetic diversity of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 : H7 recovered from human and food sources

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

Genomics of an endemic cystic fibrosis Burkholderia multivorans strain reveals low within-patient evolution but high between-patient diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Haemolytic uremic syndrome surveillance in children less than 15 years in Belgium, 2009-2015

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Hantavirus Puumala infection as a cause of fever of unknown origin in a child

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Hearing Loss With Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Identification of Five Serotypes of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli from Diarrheic Calves and Healthy Cattle in Belgium and Comparative Genomics with Shigatoxigenic E. coli

scientific article published in 2022

Improving specificity of Bordetella pertussis detection using a four target real-time PCR.

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In vitro activity of ertapenem against anaerobes isolated from the respiratory tract

scientific article published on October 1, 2003

Increasing proportion of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and emergence of a MCR-1 producer through a multicentric study among hospital-based and private laboratories in Belgium from September to November 2015.

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Insulin needs after CD3-antibody therapy in new-onset type 1 diabetes

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Late presentation to HIV testing is overestimated when based on the consensus definition.

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Legionnaires' disease in Europe, 2011 to 2015

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Lessons learned from a textbook outbreak: EHEC-O157:H7 infections associated with the consumption of raw meat products, June 2012, Limburg, Belgium

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Low prevalence of the 'gang of seven' and absence of the O80:H2 serotypes among Shigatoxigenic and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (STEC and EPEC) in intestinal contents of healthy cattle at two slaughterhouses in Belgium in 2014.

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

MRSA clonal complex 22 strains harboring toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST-1) are endemic in the primary hospital in Gaza, Palestine.

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Microbiology of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in Children With Acute Nonresponding or Recurrent Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Identification of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae as a Major Pathogen

scientific article published on June 15, 2011

Model-based clustering of Escherichia coli O157:H7 genotypes and their potential association with clinical outcome in human infections

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Multicenter evaluation of a sequence-based protocol for subtyping Shiga toxins and standardizing Stx nomenclature

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Multicenter evaluation of the cobas® HIV-1 quantitative nucleic acid test for use on the cobas® 4800 system for the quantification of HIV-1 plasma viral load

scientific article published on 16 March 2019

Nontuberculous mycobacteria among pulmonary tuberculosis patients: a retrospective Belgian multicenter study.

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

OXA-48 Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Household Contact of a Previously Infected Patient: Person-to-Person Transmission or Coincidental Community Acquisition?

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Performance of BacT/Alert resin-based FN plus bottles compared with BacT/Alert charcoal-based FN bottles for the detection of anaerobes in experimentally seeded blood cultures.

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Persistence of frequently transmitted drug-resistant HIV-1 variants can be explained by high viral replication capacity.

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Pertussis diagnosis in Belgium: results of the National Reference Centre for Bordetella anno 2015.

scientific article published on 05 June 2017

Phylogenetic analysis of the Belgian HIV-1 epidemic reveals that local transmission is almost exclusively driven by men having sex with men despite presence of large African migrant communities.

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Population structure of Escherichia coli O26 : H11 with recent and repeated stx2 acquisition in multiple lineages

scientific article published in November 2017

Prevalence and impact on FEV(1) decline of chronic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization in patients with cystic fibrosis. A single-center, case control study of 165 patients.

scientific article published on 9 September 2011

Reclassification of Staphylococcus jettensis De Bel et al. 2013 as Staphylococcus petrasii subsp. jettensis subsp. nov. and emended description of Staphylococcus petrasii Pantucek et al. 2013.

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Reply to 'Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus'.

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Respiratory Bacterial Culture Sampling in Expectorating and Non-expectorating Patients With Cystic Fibrosis

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SARS-COV-2 seroprevalence among employees of a University Hospital in Belgium during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak (COVEMUZ-study)

scientific article published on 05 July 2021

Screening for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Is Recommended in Every Newborn.

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Serodiagnosis of whooping cough in Belgium: results of the National Reference Centre for Bordetella pertussis anno 2013.

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Strain-Level Metagenomic Data Analysis of Enriched In Vitro and In Silico Spiked Food Samples: Paving the Way towards a Culture-Free Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Using STEC as a Case Study

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Surveillance of Circulating Bordetella pertussis Strains in Europe during 1998 to 2015

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Susceptibility of Burkholderia cepacia Complex Isolated from Cystic Fibrosis Patients to Ceftazidime-Avibactam and Ceftolozane-Tazobactam

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

The Benefits of Whole Genome Sequencing for Foodborne Outbreak Investigation from the Perspective of a National Reference Laboratory in a Smaller Country

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

The global population structure and evolutionary history of the acquisition of major virulence factor-encoding genetic elements in Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O121:H19

scientific article published in 2021

The sink as a potential source of transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Three cases of OXA-48-like carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae (not) detected using Xpert® Carba-R.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Time between Symptom Onset, Hospitalisation and Recovery or Death: Statistical Analysis of Belgian COVID-19 Patients

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

Towards Real-Time and Affordable Strain-Level Metagenomics-Based Foodborne Outbreak Investigations Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Technologies

scientific article published on 05 November 2021

Transmission of HIV Drug Resistance and the Predicted Effect on Current First-line Regimens in Europe

scientific article published on 29 November 2015

Twenty-seven years of screening for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in a university hospital. Brussels, Belgium, 1987-2014.

scientific article published on 2 July 2018

Unique Phylogenetic Lineage Found in the Fusarium-like Clade after Re-examining BCCM/IHEM Fungal Culture Collection Material

scientific article (publication date: September 2016)

Use of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry for identification of molds of the Fusarium genus

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Validation of a New Web Application for Identification of Fungi by Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Validation strategy of a bioinformatics whole genome sequencing workflow for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli using a reference collection extensively characterized with conventional methods

scientific article published in 2021