In this study, we assessed to what extent data on the subject of TPPR (transfer, persistence, prevalence, recovery) that are obtained through an older STR typing kit can be used in an activity-level evaluation for a case profiled with a more modern STR kit. Newer kits generally hold more loci and may …

Standard SARS-CoV-2 testing protocols using nasopharyngeal/throat (NP/T) swabs are invasive and require trained medical staff for reliable sampling. In addition, it has been shown that PCR is more sensitive as compared to antigen-based tests. Here we describe the analytical and clinical evaluation of …

INTRODUCTION: Patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been postulated to present with distinct respiratory subphenotypes. However, most phenotyping schema have been limited by sample size, disregard for temporal dynamics, and insufficient validation. We aimed to …

De gouden standaard bij de diagnose COVID19 is de RT-PCR test. De accuratesse van die test kan echter in twijfel worden getrokken. Doel van het onderzoek is het bepalen van de waarde van de CT-thorax bij de diagnose COVID19. Bij de beoordeling van CT-thorax worden CORADS en CTSS gebruikt. De gevonden …

We investigate hydrology during a past climate slightly warmer than the present: the last interglacial (LIG). With daily output of preindustrial and LIG simulations from eight new climate models we force hydrological model PCR‐GLOBWB and in turn hydrodynamic model CaMa‐Flood. Compared to preindustrial, …

In deze systematische review zal wordt een overzicht gegeven van verschillende aspecten met betrekking tot de diagnostische waarde van een CT-thorax bij patiënten met verdachte of bewezen COVID-19. In kaart wordt gebracht wat de diagnostische waarde van de CT-scan is wanneer de RT-PCR test onbekend of …

DNA barcoding is an important molecular methodology for species identification that was developed over the last two decades and it should be covered inthe biology bachelor curriculum. Here, we present an example of DNA barcoding by sequencing a segment of the 28S nuclear ribosomal large subunitrRNA gene …

PCR-free techniques such as meta-mitogenomics (MMG) can recover taxonomic composition of macroinvertebrate communities, but sufer from low efciency, as >90% of sequencing data is mostly uninformative due to the great abundance of nuclear DNA that cannot be identifed with current reference databases. …

Ureaplasma is een van de kleinst zelf-replicerende organismes uit de Mycoplasma familie. Ureaplasma staat bekend om tijdens zwangerschap infecties te veroorzaken en vroeggeboorte te induceren. Een infectie met Ureaplasma tijdens de zwangerschap, kan leiden tot infectie van de neonaat. In de neonaat kan …

The use of molecular tools for the detection and identification of invertebrate species enables the development of more easily standardisable inventories of biological elements for water quality assessments, as it circumvents human-based bias and errors in species identifications. Current Ecological …