Background Acute respiratory tract infections are an important public health problem.
Sensitive and rapid diagnostic techniques have been developed and are used in daily clinical …

Background Antimicrobial resistance has become an urgent global health priority. Basic
hygiene practices and cleaning and disinfection of the hospital environment are key in …

Current diagnostics for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) include testing for a wide
range of pathogens, which is costly and not always informative. We compared clinical and …

People are exposed to an ever-increasing number of chemical compounds that are developed
by industry for a wide range of applications. These compounds may harmfully react with …

Objectives The aim of this study was to determine whether the Hem-Col method of obtaining
and storing blood is an acceptable alternative to venepuncture for measuring Diabetes …

Background In healthcare facilities, Clostridium difficile infections spread by transmission of
bacterial spores. Appropriate sporicidal disinfectants are needed to prevent development of …

Alternative methods to detect non-genotoxic carcinogens are urgently needed, as this class
of carcinogens goes undetected in the current testing strategy for carcinogenicity under …

Purpose/objective About 20% of children with solid tumours (ST) present with distant
metastases (DM). Evidence regarding the use of radical radiotherapy of these DM is sparse and …

Under REACH, the European Community Regulation on chemicals, the testing strategy for
carcinogenicity is based on in vitro and in vivo genotoxicity assays. Given that non-genotoxic …

We propose and validate experimentally a time-to-live (TTL) signaling system for an optical
label swapping scheme based on 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) packets …