Randomised controlled trial of nitrofurantoin versus placebo in the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection in adult women.

…, G Verschraegen, W Peersman, S Heytens… - British Journal of …, 2002 - bjgp.org
… In Mabeck’s study on sulfonamides in UTI a placebo arm was included; however, it was
used to follow spontaneous evolution rather than the explicit comparison of drug treatment with …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing antibiotic use in uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adult women: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

…, E Hummers, TPA Debray, AD Hay, S Heytens… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigated analgesics, herbal formulations,
delayed prescription of antibiotics, and placebo to prevent overprescription of antibiotics …

Antibiotic use in ambulatory care for acutely ill children in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

…, NTH Trinh, J Freer, L Wynants, S Heytens… - Archives of Disease in …, 2022 - adc.bmj.com
… For all studies and subgroups containing at least 10 studies, funnel plots were constructed
and Egger’s regression test was used to detect small study biases.24 25 We computed …

[HTML][HTML] Women with symptoms of a urinary tract infection but a negative urine culture: PCR-based quantification of Escherichia coli suggests infection in most cases

S Heytens, A De Sutter, L Coorevits, P Cools… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2017 - Elsevier
… culture-positive for S. saprophyticus unexpectedly yielded a negative qPCR result for S.
saprophyticus, the overall correspondence between culture and qPCR for S. saprophyticus was …

Evolution of bacterial susceptibility pattern of Escherichia coli in uncomplicated urinary tract infections in a country with high antibiotic consumption: a comparison of …

D De Backer, T Christiaens, S Heytens… - Journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… The S. saprophyticus percentage was higher than in some comparable surveillances, 19–21 …
S. saprophyticus is a leading cause of uncomplicated UTIs in young, healthy, sexually …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptomatic bacteriuria in older adults: the most fragile women are prone to long-term colonization

M Biggel, S Heytens, K Latour, R Bruyndonckx… - BMC geriatrics, 2019 - Springer
… As these cases of polymicrobial ABU comprised species including S. haemolyticus, … ,
provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the …

[HTML][HTML] Humoral and cellular responses to COVID-19 vaccination indicate the need for post-vaccination testing in frail population

…, E De Smet, M Wejda, D Acar, S Callens, S Heytens… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Three months post-vaccination, levels of secreted IFNγ correlated strongly with pseudovirus
neutralization and anti-S IgG levels measured at the same time point (Supplementary Figure …

Comparison of dried blood spots and venous blood for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in a population of nursing home residents

E Meyers, S Heytens, A Formukong… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… However, the latter result is classified as borderline according to the manufacturer’s guidelines;
this category was not considered in the current analysis, and this result was classified as …

The resident microflora of voided midstream urine of healthy controls: standard versus expanded urine culture protocols

L Coorevits, S Heytens, J Boelens, G Claeys - European Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - Springer
The workup and interpretation of urine cultures is not always clear-cut, especially for midstream
samples contaminated with commensals. Standard urine culture (SUC) protocols are …

[HTML][HTML] Vaccine hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine in a random national sample of Belgian nursing home staff members

…, AD Sutter, JY Verbakel, P Cools, S Heytens… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
… The degree of this association was evaluated with Cramer’s phi (Vc). … p value from Chi-squared
test (χ 2 ) and the measure of the degree of association with Cramer’s Phi (Vc). …