Toon Braeye
Biographic Data
| ID | 7755532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toon Braeye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toon |
| FAMILY NAME | Braeye |
| SIGNATURE | BRAEYE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sciensano (Belgium) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5637-4613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Belgium’s Sars-CoV-2 contact tracing effectively curbed transmission, yet challenges persist in terms of delays, scalability and population adherence
Through contact tracing, researchers could reconstruct chains of linked cases by linking High-Risk Exposure Contacts (HREC) testing positive to their index case. We present chain-level descriptives, delays and an individual-level analysis of the events that determine chain progression. We used data from contact tracing outside of collectivities between September 2020 and March 2022 in Belgium. We present chain-level generation counts and structur…
Personal characteristics and transmission dynamics associated with Sars-CoV-2 semi-quantitative PCR test results
Introduction Following harmonization efforts by the Belgian National Reference Center for SARS-CoV-2, semi-quantitative PCR test (SQ-PCR) results, used as a proxy for viral load, were routinely collected after performing RT-qPCR tests. Methods We investigated both the personal characteristics associated with SQ-PCR results and the transmission dynamics involving these results. We used person-level laboratory test data and contact tracing data col…
Prioritisation for future surveillance, prevention and control of 98 communicable diseases in Belgium
We ranked infectious diseases using a standardised reproducible approach. The diseases ranked highest are included in current public health programs, but additional reflection for example about needs among risk groups is recommended. Cross-reference of the obtained ranking with current programs is needed to verify whether resources and activities map priority areas. We recommend to implement this method in a recurrent evaluation cycle of national…
Incidence estimation from sentinel surveillance data; a simulation study and application to data from the Belgian laboratory sentinel surveillance
The Huff-model allows for estimation of the spatial and population coverage of sentinel surveillance and through IPW-methods also for the estimation of the total number of cases. The Huff-model's gravity function allows us to differentiate inside an area while estimating from the full dataset. Our data examples show that additional data on the participation to surveillance and practices of labs is necessary for a more accurate estimation
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Incidence estimation from sentinel surveillance data; a simulation study and application to data from the Belgian laboratory sentinel surveillance
The Huff-model allows for estimation of the spatial and population coverage of sentinel surveillance and through IPW-methods also for the estimation of the total number of cases. The Huff-model's gravity function allows us to differentiate inside an area while estimating from the full dataset. Our data examples show that additional data on the participation to surveillance and practices of labs is necessary for a more accurate estimation
Prioritisation for future surveillance, prevention and control of 98 communicable diseases in Belgium
We ranked infectious diseases using a standardised reproducible approach. The diseases ranked highest are included in current public health programs, but additional reflection for example about needs among risk groups is recommended. Cross-reference of the obtained ranking with current programs is needed to verify whether resources and activities map priority areas. We recommend to implement this method in a recurrent evaluation cycle of national…
Personal characteristics and transmission dynamics associated with Sars-CoV-2 semi-quantitative PCR test results
Introduction Following harmonization efforts by the Belgian National Reference Center for SARS-CoV-2, semi-quantitative PCR test (SQ-PCR) results, used as a proxy for viral load, were routinely collected after performing RT-qPCR tests. Methods We investigated both the personal characteristics associated with SQ-PCR results and the transmission dynamics involving these results. We used person-level laboratory test data and contact tracing data col…
Belgium’s Sars-CoV-2 contact tracing effectively curbed transmission, yet challenges persist in terms of delays, scalability and population adherence
Through contact tracing, researchers could reconstruct chains of linked cases by linking High-Risk Exposure Contacts (HREC) testing positive to their index case. We present chain-level descriptives, delays and an individual-level analysis of the events that determine chain progression. We used data from contact tracing outside of collectivities between September 2020 and March 2022 in Belgium. We present chain-level generation counts and structur…
Epidemiology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Biostatistics (2 works) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Pathology (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Communicable disease (1 work)