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Niko Speybroeck
Researcher at Université catholique de Louvain
Publications - 359
Citations - 15283
Niko Speybroeck is an academic researcher from Université catholique de Louvain. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 333 publications receiving 12559 citations. Previous affiliations of Niko Speybroeck include University of Kinshasa & Catholic University of Leuven.
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World Health Organization Global Estimates and Regional Comparisons of the Burden of Foodborne Disease in 2010
Arie H. Havelaar,Arie H. Havelaar,Martyn D. Kirk,Paul R. Torgerson,Herman J. Gibb,Tine Hald,Robin J. Lake,Nicolas Praet,David C. Bellinger,Nilanthi de Silva,Neyla Gargouri,Niko Speybroeck,Amy Cawthorne,Colin Mathers,Claudia Stein,Frederick J. Angulo,Brecht Devleesschauwer +16 more
TL;DR: The Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) reports their first estimates of the incidence, mortality, and disease burden due to 31 foodborne hazards, finding that the global burden of FBD is comparable to those of the major infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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Disability weights for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study
Joshua A. Salomon,Juanita A. Haagsma,Juanita A. Haagsma,Adrian Davis,Charline Maertens de Noordhout,Suzanne Polinder,Arie H. Havelaar,Arie H. Havelaar,Alessandro Cassini,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Mirjam Kretzschmar,Niko Speybroeck,Christopher J L Murray,Theo Vos +14 more
TL;DR: This study substantially expands the empirical basis for assessment of non-fatal outcomes in the GBD study and substantiates the notion that disability weights are sensitive to particular details in descriptions of health states, but robust to duration of outcomes.
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World Health Organization Estimates of the Global and Regional Disease Burden of 11 Foodborne Parasitic Diseases, 2010: A Data Synthesis
Paul R. Torgerson,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Nicolas Praet,Niko Speybroeck,Arve Lee Willingham,Fumiko Kasuga,Mohammad Bagher Rokni,Xiao-Nong Zhou,Eric M. Fèvre,Eric M. Fèvre,Banchob Sripa,Neyla Gargouri,Thomas Fürst,Christine M. Budke,Hélène Carabin,Martyn D. Kirk,Frederick J. Angulo,Arie H. Havelaar,Arie H. Havelaar,Nilanthi de Silva +21 more
TL;DR: The first estimates of the global and regional human disease burden of 10 helminth diseases and toxoplasmosis that may be attributed to contaminated food are presented, representing an important step forward in understanding the impact of foodborne diseases globally and regionally.
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The global burden of listeriosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Charline Maertens de Noordhout,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Brecht Devleesschauwer,Frederick J. Angulo,Geert Verbeke,Juanita A. Haagsma,Martyn D. Kirk,Arie H. Havelaar,Niko Speybroeck +8 more
TL;DR: The first estimates of global numbers of illnesses, deaths, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) due to listeriosis are provided, by synthesising information and knowledge through a systematic review of peer-reviewed and grey literature.
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Scientific Opinion on the update of the list of QPS-recommended biological agents intentionally added to food or feed as notified to EFSA
Antonia Ricci,Ana Allende,Declan Bolton,Marianne Chemaly,Robert Davies,Rosina Girones,Lieve Herman,Konstantinos Koutsoumanis,Roland Lindqvist,Birgit Nørrung,Lucy J. Robertson,Giuseppe Ru,Moez Sanaa,Marion Simmons,Panagiotis N. Skandamis,Emma Snary,Niko Speybroeck,Benno H. ter Kuile,John Threlfall,Helene Wahlström,Pier Sandro Cocconcelli,Günter Klein,Miguel Prieto Maradona,Amparo Querol,Luísa Peixe,Juan E. Suárez,Ingvar Sundh,Just M. Vlak,Margarita Aguilera-Gómez,Fulvio Barizzone,Rosella Brozzi,Sandra Correia,Leng Heng,Frederique Istace,Christopher Lythgo,Pablo Salvador Fernández Escámez +35 more
TL;DR: The exclusion of filamentous fungi and enterococci from the QPS evaluations was reconsidered but monitoring will be maintained and the status will be re‐evaluated in the next QPS Opinion update.