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| M P KoopmansSummaryAffiliation: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Profiling of humoral immune responses to influenza viruses by using protein microarrayM Koopmans
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Center for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Microbiol Infect 18:797-807. 2012..Clinical and vaccination studies, but also exposure studies, should take these findings into consideration, as they may indicate some level of humoral immunity not measured by HI assays...
Risk based culling for highly infectious diseases of livestockDennis E Te Beest
Department of Farm Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 7, 3584 CL, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Vet Res 42:81. 2011..the location of all farms in the area at risk, the moments when infected farms are detected, and an estimate of the distance-dependent probability of transmission...- Clostridium difficile is not associated with outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis in the elderly in the NetherlandsS Svraka
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Center for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, P O Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 29:677-82. 2010..difficile. The high rate of false-positive EIA samples emphasises the need for second confirmation tests to diagnose CDI... - Non-travel related Hepatitis E virus genotype 3 infections in the Netherlands; a case series 2004 - 2006Katrine Borgen
Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and Environment RIVM, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
BMC Infect Dis 8:61. 2008..We conducted a descriptive case series to generate hypotheses about possible risk factors for non-travel related HEV infections and to map the genetic diversity of HEV... - General practitioner practices in requesting laboratory tests for patients with gastroenteritis in the Netherlands, 2001-2002Winette E van den Brandhof
Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
BMC Fam Pract 7:56. 2006..In addition adherence of GPs to the guidelines for diagnostic test regime was ascertained... 
Foodborne virusesMarion Koopmans
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
FEMS Microbiol Rev 26:187-205. 2002..With better surveillance, including typing information, outbreaks of foodborne infections could be reported faster to prevent further spread...- Noroviruses in healthcare settings: a challenging problemM Koopmans
Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Hosp Infect 73:331-7. 2009.... - [Outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis, in particular due to the Norwalk virus: an underestimated problem]M P G Koopmans
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Laboratorium voor Infectieziektediagnostiek en Perinatale Screening, afd Virologie, Postbus 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 146:2401-4. 2002..The microbiological quality control of food is often still based on bacteriological contamination, and therefore viral contamination may remain unnoticed. Reverse transcriptase PCR is a recent diagnostic tool... - Progress in understanding norovirus epidemiologyMarion Koopmans
Public Health Virology, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam and Virology, Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Curr Opin Infect Dis 21:544-52. 2008..This review focuses on studies that provide new knowledge needed to understand their transmission, pathogenesis, evolutionary changes and options for control... - Early identification of common-source foodborne virus outbreaks in EuropeMarion Koopmans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis 9:1136-42. 2003..We describe the setup and preliminary results of our system, which uses a Web-accessible central database to track viruses and provides the foundation for an early warning system of foodborne and other common-source outbreaks... - Transmission of H7N7 avian influenza A virus to human beings during a large outbreak in commercial poultry farms in the NetherlandsMarion Koopmans
Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
Lancet 363:587-93. 2004..Although the risk of transmission of these viruses to humans was initially thought to be low, an outbreak investigation was launched to assess the extent of transmission of influenza A virus subtype H7N7 from chickens to humans... - European investigation into recent norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships: updateM Koopmans
National Institute of Public Health (RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Euro Surveill 11:E060706.5. 2006 - Emerging viral zoonosesMarion Koopmans
Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Acta Vet Scand Suppl 100:51-4. 2003 - Outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis: what's new in 2004?Marion Koopmans
Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Curr Opin Infect Dis 18:295-9. 2005..A review of outbreak reports was done to further our understanding of the burden of disease, common and rare modes of transmission, complications, and possibilities for control and prevention... - Molecular epidemiology of human enteric caliciviruses in The NetherlandsM Koopmans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Infect Dis 181:S262-9. 2000.... - Association of torovirus with acute and persistent diarrhea in childrenM P Koopmans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Pediatr Infect Dis J 16:504-7. 1997..To study the etiologic role of toroviruses as a cause of gastroenteritis in humans... - Age-stratified seroprevalence of neutralizing antibodies to astrovirus types 1 to 7 in humans in The NetherlandsM P Koopmans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 5:33-7. 1998.... - Induction of mucosal immunity by inactivated poliovirus vaccine is dependent on previous mucosal contact with live virusT M Herremans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Immunol 162:5011-8. 1999..It is concluded that IPV vaccination alone is insufficient to induce a mucosal IgA response against poliovirus. In mucosally (OPV-) primed individuals, however, booster vaccination with IPV leads to a strong mucosal IgA response... - Poliovirus-specific immunoglobulin A in persons vaccinated with inactivated poliovirus vaccine in The NetherlandsM M Herremans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 4:499-503. 1997..While the presence of secretory IgA in IPV-vaccinated persons has been documented previously, our findings suggest that mucosal priming with live virus is necessary to obtain an IgA response after IPV booster vaccination... - Sensor, a population-based cohort study on gastroenteritis in the Netherlands: incidence and etiologyM A de Wit
Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Am J Epidemiol 154:666-74. 2001..However, additional prevention of viral infections, especially NLV, might significantly decrease the number of gastroenteritis cases in the community... - Lessons from diagnostic investigations of patients with poliomyelitis and their direct contacts for the present surveillance of acute flaccid paralysisT Herremans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 29:849-54. 1999..9% of the AFP cases. This rate would have been increased to 92% through the use of the poliovirus-specific IgM ELISA. The IgM ELISA could serve as an important additional tool for the rapid diagnosis of poliomyelitis... - Gastroenteritis in sentinel general practices,The NetherlandsM A de Wit
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis 7:82-91. 2001..A pathogen could be detected in almost 40% of patients (bacteria 16%, viruses 15%, parasites 8%)... - Etiology of gastroenteritis in sentinel general practices in the netherlandsM A de Wit
Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 33:280-8. 2001.... - Molecular characterization of a wild poliovirus type 3 epidemic in The Netherlands (1992 and 1993)M N Mulders
Laboratory of Virology, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Poliomyelitis, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Microbiol 33:3252-6. 1995..A more than 99% sequence similarity was found in the VP1/2A region. Finally, the sequence information was used to design primers for the specific and highly sensitive molecular detection of PV3 strains during the epidemic... - Hospital admissions for rotavirus infection in the NetherlandsM A de Wit
Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 31:698-704. 2000..9 per 1000, and the indirect estimate was 2.7 per 1000 in 1998 (1996, 3.4; 1997, 1.6). The proportion of hospitalizations for gastroenteritis attributable to RV ranged from 32% in 1997 to 58% in 1996... - Antibody responses to antigenic sites 1 and 3 of serotype 3 poliovirus after vaccination with oral live attenuated or inactivated poliovirus vaccine and after natural exposureT Herremans
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 7:40-4. 2000..01). We conclude that the immune response to serotype 3 poliovirus in humans consists of both site 1- and site 3-specific antibodies and that these responses can be induced by either OPV or recent IPV vaccination... - Molecular characterizations of human and animal group a rotaviruses in the NetherlandsR van der Heide
Microbiological Laboratory for Health Protection, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Microbiol 43:669-75. 2005..All bovine, porcine, and equine rotaviruses were within genotypes previously reported for these animal species... - A one-year intensified study of outbreaks of gastroenteritis in The NetherlandsY T H P van Duynhoven
Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 133:9-21. 2005..Salmonella, as the second foodborne pathogen, was mainly associated with raw shell eggs. These results stress the continuous need for food safety education, complementary to governmental regulation... - Swine-like hepatitis E viruses are a cause of unexplained hepatitis in the NetherlandsM Herremans
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Bilthoven, The Netheralnds
J Viral Hepat 14:140-6. 2007..We recommend including HEV tests in unexplained acute hepatitis patients, despite their travel history... - Detection of hepatitis E virus-specific immunoglobulin a in patients infected with hepatitis E virus genotype 1 or 3M Herremans
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Vaccine Immunol 14:276-80. 2007..In both the type 1- and type 3-infected patients both the IgA and IgM responses disappeared simultaneously. We conclude that IgA detection is of limited value for the serodiagnosis of acute HEV cases, particularly with genotype 3... - Use of serological assays for diagnosis of hepatitis E virus genotype 1 and 3 infections in a setting of low endemicityM Herremans
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, P O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Vaccine Immunol 14:562-8. 2007..We conclude that a combination of ELISA and immunoblotting is needed for acceptable specificity and sensitivity of HEV assays under conditions of low endemicity... - Bayesian estimation of hepatitis E virus seroprevalence for populations with different exposure levels to swine in The NetherlandsM Bouwknegt
Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 136:567-76. 2008..By combining the results of five serological assays in a Bayesian stochastical model we confirmed that exposure to swine or their environment was associated with elevated HEV seroprevalence... - Evaluation of an in-house cat scratch disease IgM ELISA to detect Bartonella henselae in a routine laboratory settingM Herremans
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, P O Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 28:147-52. 2009..henselae is hampered by the low sensitivity and specificity of the assays when used in a routine laboratory setting. For this reason, a negative IgM or PCR result can never exclude CSD, especially with late sample collection... - The use of Bartonella henselae-specific age dependent IgG and IgM in diagnostic models to discriminate diseased from non-diseased in Cat Scratch Disease serologyM Herremans
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Diagnostic Laboratory for infectious diseases and perinatal screening LIS, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Microbiol Methods 71:107-13. 2007..Although the sensitivity of the ELISA remains low we conclude that the use of models using the combination of both IgM and IgG test results and age-depending factors can be a useful diagnostic tool in the serodiagnosis of CSD... - [Avian influenza H5NI in Europe: little risk as yet to health in the Netherlands]A Timen
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Centrum voor Infectieziektebestrijding, Postbus I, 372o BA Bilthoven
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 149:2547-9. 2005..In order to address the long-term risk of a pandemic due to recombination of human and avian viruses or to mutations in the avian virus itself, guidelines for pandemic preparedness have been developed and implemented in the Netherlands... - In search of hidden Q-fever outbreaks: linking syndromic hospital clusters to infected goat farmsC C van den Wijngaard
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 139:19-26. 2011..Real-time syndromic surveillance would have detected four of the other clusters in 2007, one in 2006 and two in 2005, which might have resulted in detection of Q-fever outbreaks up to 2 years earlier... - Norwalk-like calicivirus genes in farm animalsW H van der Poel
National Institute of Public Health, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis 6:36-41. 2000..While zoonotic transmission has not been proven, these findings suggest that calves and pigs may be reservoir hosts of NLVs... - Oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus in Dutch travellers returning from Spain, August 2012A Meijer
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Euro Surveill 17:20266. 2012..Genetic analysis of the neuraminidase gene revealed the presence of previously described permissive mutations that may increase the likelihood of such strains emerging and spreading widely... - A comparison of gastroenteritis in a general practice-based study and a community-based studyM A de Wit
Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Epidemiol Infect 127:389-97. 2001..The incidence of gastroenteritis in general practices was estimated between 14 and 35 per 1000 person years... - Experimental norovirus infections in non-human primatesB H G Rockx
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Med Virol 75:313-20. 2005..Further research on Norovirus susceptibility in rhesus macaques may yield an animal model to study the immune response and pathogenesis after Norovirus infection... - Mucosal and systemic immunity against poliovirus in mice transgenic for the poliovirus receptor: the poliovirus receptor is necessary for a virus-specific mucosal IgA responseA M Buisman
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Infect Dis 181:815-23. 2000..PVRtg mice are a suitable model for the study of poliovirus-specific immunity and protection against poliovirus infection... - Epidemiology and genotype analysis of emerging sapovirus-associated infections across EuropeSanela Svraka
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, Center for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
J Clin Microbiol 48:2191-8. 2010..The incidence of sapovirus infections in these countries suggests that a substantial part of Europe is affected by this virus... - Foodborne viruses: an emerging problemMarion Koopmans
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan, 9, NL 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Int J Food Microbiol 90:23-41. 2004.... - Emergence of new norovirus variants on spring cruise ships and prediction of winter epidemicsLinda Verhoef
Center for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis 14:238-43. 2008..Internationally accepted guidelines are needed for reporting, investigating, and controlling norovirus illness on cruise ships in Europe... - Norovirus in captive lion cub (Panthera leo)Vito Martella
University of Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1071-3. 2007..We report the identification of a novel enteric calicivirus, genetically related to human noroviruses of genogroup IV, in a lion cub that died of severe hemorrhagic enteritis... - Measurement of antibodies to avian influenza virus A(H7N7) in humans by hemagglutination inhibition testAdam Meijer
Section Virology, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Virol Methods 132:113-20. 2006..In conclusion, by applying an HI-test using horse erythrocytes human antibodies against the avian A(H7N7) virus were detected with high sensitivity and specificity in an unexpectedly high proportion of exposed persons... - No association between histo-blood group antigens and susceptibility to clinical infections with genogroup II norovirusTamar Halperin
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel
J Infect Dis 197:63-5. 2008..This is the largest study to test the association between NoVs, proven clinical infection with GII, and the ABO histo-blood group... - Genetic analysis of the capsid gene of genotype GII.2 norovirusesNobuhiro Iritani
Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, P O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Virol 82:7336-45. 2008..The data suggest that these changes were induced by selective pressure, driving virus evolution. Remarkably, this was observed only for nonrecombinant genomes, suggesting differences in behavior with recombinant strains... - Epidemic of genotype GII.2 noroviruses during spring 2004 in Osaka City, JapanNobuhiro Iritani
Laboratory of Microbiology, Osaka Prefecture University, 1 1 Gakuen cho, Sakai, Osaka 599 8531, Japan
J Clin Microbiol 46:2406-9. 2008..2 genotype norovirus strain caused an epidemic of acute gastroenteritis in Osaka, Japan. Phylogenetic analysis showed that this strain was distinct from all other GII.2 strains detected in Osaka City between April 1996 and March 2005... - Epidemic spread of recombinant noroviruses with four capsid types in HungaryGabor Reuter
Regional Laboratory of Virology, ANTSZ Baranya County Institute of State Public Health Service, Szabadság út 7, H 7623 Pecs, Hungary
J Clin Virol 35:84-8. 2006..More recently, naturally occurring recombinant noroviruses were described. These viruses had a distinct polymerase gene sequence (designated GGIIb/Hilversum) and were disseminated through waterborne and food-borne transmission in Europe... - Viral gastroenteritis outbreaks in Europe, 1995-2000Ben A Lopman
Gastrointestinal Diseases Division, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, 61 Colindale Avenue, London, England
Emerg Infect Dis 9:90-6. 2003..We review these differences within the context of the sources of outbreak surveillance information, clinical definitions, and structures of the outbreak surveillance systems... - High prevalence of prolonged norovirus shedding and illness among hospitalized patients: a model for in vivo molecular evolutionJ Joukje Siebenga
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
J Infect Dis 198:994-1001. 2008..The severe impact on patients and hospitals and the potential role of prolonged shedders as a reservoir for viral antigenic variants lead us to stress the importance of confinement of outbreaks of NoV infection that occur in hospitals... - An outbreak of diarrhea in a neonatal medium care unit caused by a novel strain of rotavirus: investigation using both epidemiologic and microbiological methodsMarc-Alain Widdowson
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology and Training
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 23:665-70. 2002..High levels of rotavirus antibodies in mothers may not protect infants. The environment may be the most important reservoir of rotavirus during outbreaks... - Natural history of human calicivirus infection: a prospective cohort studyBarry Rockx
Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 35:246-53. 2002..SLV shedding subsided after 14 days. These data show that the durations of disease and viral shedding of caliciviruses are longer than has been described elsewhere. Therefore, the impact of these infections may have been underestimated... - Avian influenza A virus (H7N7) associated with human conjunctivitis and a fatal case of acute respiratory distress syndromeRon A M Fouchier
Department of Virology and National Influenza Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:1356-61. 2004..Because H7N7 viruses have caused disease in mammals, including horses, seals, and humans, on several occasions in the past, they may be unusual in their zoonotic potential and, thus, form a pandemic threat to humans... - Detecting emerging transmissibility of avian influenza virus in human householdsMichiel van Boven
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
PLoS Comput Biol 3:e145. 2007..We discuss the applicability of our method for the detection of emerging human-to-human transmission of avian influenza viruses in particular, and for the analysis of within-household infection data in general... - Increase in viral gastroenteritis outbreaks in Europe and epidemic spread of new norovirus variantBen Lopman
Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Lancet 363:682-8. 2004..In addition to showing the added value of an international network for viral gastroenteritis outbreaks, these observations raise questions about the biological properties of the variant and the mechanisms for its rapid dissemination... - Evidence of the etiological predominance of norovirus in gastroenteritis outbreaks--emerging new-variant and recombinant noroviruses in HungaryGabor Reuter
Regional Laboratory of Virology, ANTSZ Baranya County Institute of State Public Health Service, Pecs, Hungary
J Med Virol 76:598-607. 2005..Clusters of epidemics including food-borne outbreaks were detected. According to this study, noroviruses are the predominant etiological agents causing gastroenteritis outbreaks in Hungary... - Food-borne norovirus outbreaks: a nuisance or more than that?Marion Koopmans
Wien Klin Wochenschr 117:789-91. 2005 - Detection of noroviruses in shellfish in the NetherlandsIngeborg L A Boxman
Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Regionale dienst Oost, P O Box 202, 7200 AE, Zutphen, The Netherlands
Int J Food Microbiol 108:391-6. 2006..Further surveillance of norovirus by detection and typing of viruses from patients with gastroenteritis and shellfish is warranted to clarify the causes of future outbreaks... - Final analysis of Netherlands avian influenza outbreaks reveals much higher levels of transmission to humans than previously thoughtArnold Bosman
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Euro Surveill 10:E050106.2. 2005 - Syndromic surveillance in the Netherlands for the early detection of West Nile virus epidemicsBarry Rockx
Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 6:161-9. 2006..We conclude that, from 1999 to 2004, no evidence of WNV infection could be found in either humans or horses in The Netherlands... - Failure to detect norovirus in a large group of asymptomatic individuals by Marshall et al. (Public Health Vol 118 (3) 230-233)Erwin Duizer
Public Health 118:455-6; author reply 456-7. 2004 - Probabilities in norovirus outbreak diagnosisErwin Duizer
Center for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Virol 40:38-42. 2007..Yet, diagnostic testing for norovirus is based mostly on RNA detection by RT-PCR, which is not widely available. While antigen detection tests (ELISAs) are easier to perform, they are in general less sensitive... - Round-robin comparison of methods for the detection of human enteric viruses in lettuceFrancoise S Le Guyader
IFREMER, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, BP 21105, 44311 Nantes Cedex 03, France
J Food Prot 67:2315-9. 2004..Such development of sensitive methods for viral detection in foods other than shellfish is important to improve food safety... - An efficient and rapid method for recovery of norovirus from food associated with outbreaks of gastroenteritisIngeborg L A Boxman
Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Regionale dienst Oost, P O Box 202, 7200 AE, Zutphen, The Netherlands
J Food Prot 70:504-8. 2007.... - Etiological role of viruses in outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis in The Netherlands from 1994 through 2005Sanela Svraka
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Center for Infectious Disease Control, P O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Clin Microbiol 45:1389-94. 2007..2%) outbreaks suspected of having viral etiologies remain unexplained. Increases in numbers of reported outbreaks may indicate undefined changes in the criteria for reporting or the emergence of new pathogens... - [West Nile virus also in the Netherlands?]Lutz Goehring
Universiteit Utrecht
Tijdschr Diergeneeskd 129:561. 2004 - Inactivation of calicivirusesErwin Duizer
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, P O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:4538-43. 2004..The incomplete inactivation by ethanol and the high hypochlorite concentration needed for sufficient virus inactivation point to a concern for decontamination of fomites and surfaces contaminated with noroviruses and virus-safe water... - Epochal evolution of GGII.4 norovirus capsid proteins from 1995 to 2006J Joukje Siebenga
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Virol 81:9932-41. 2007..The consistent association between the observed genetic findings and changes in epidemiology leads to the conclusion that population immunity plays a role in the epochal evolution of GGII.4 norovirus strains... - Cluster of cases of acute hepatitis associated with hepatitis E virus infection acquired in the NetherlandsMarc Alain Widdowson
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology and Training, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Clin Infect Dis 36:29-33. 2003..Routine testing for HEV infection in patients with acute hepatitis in The Netherlands should be considered before a diagnosis of autoimmune hepatitis is reached and steroid therapy is initiated... - Seroepidemiology of hepatitis E virus in patients with non-A, non-B, non-C hepatitis in HungaryAnnika Haagsman
Diagnostic Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Perinatal Screening, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
J Med Virol 79:927-30. 2007.... - Probiotic bacteria stimulate virus-specific neutralizing antibodies following a booster polio vaccinationMichael de Vrese
Federal Research Centre of Nutrition and Food, Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of Nutrition, Hermann Weigmann Strasse 1, 24103 Kiel, Germany
Eur J Nutr 44:406-13. 2005..Even though positive effects of probiotics on respiratory tract infections have been reported, overall only few studies have examined effects on virus infections concerning organs other than the gastrointestinal tract...