Publications
An application of Bayesian growth mixture modelling to estimate infection incidences from repeated serological tests Institute of Tropical Medicine
Endosymbiont transmission mode in bacterial leaf nodulation as revealed by a population genetic study of Psychotria leptophylla Meise Botanic Garden KU Leuven
Age-stratified Bayesian analysis to estimate sensitivity and specificity of four diagnostic tests for the detection of Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts in neonatal calves Institute of Tropical Medicine
True versus apparent malaria infection prevalence: the contribution of a Bayesian approach Institute of Tropical Medicine
Threshold thinking in medicine: time for a paradigm change Institute of Tropical Medicine
Bayesian latent class models with conditionally dependent diagnostic tests Institute of Tropical Medicine KU Leuven
Bayesian estimation of hepatitis E virus seroprevalence for populations with different exposure levels to swine in The Netherlands Institute of Tropical Medicine
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is ubiquitous in pigs worldwide and may be zoonotic. Previous HEV seroprevalence estimates for groups of people working with swine were higher than for control groups. However, discordance among results of anti-HEV assays means that true seroprevalence estimates, i.e. seroprevalence due to previous exposure to HEV, depends on choice of seroassay. We tested blood samples from three subpopulations (49 swine ...
The phylogenetic utility of chloroplast and nuclear DNA markers and the phylogeny of the Rubiaceae tribe Spermacoceae Meise Botanic Garden KU Leuven
The phylogenetic utility of chloroplast (atpB-rbcL, petD, rps16, trnL-F) and nuclear (ETS, ITS) DNA regions was investigated for the tribe Spermacoceae of the coffee family (Rubiaceae). ITS was, despite often raised cautions of its utility at higher taxonomic levels, shown to provide the highest number of parsimony informative characters, in partitioned Bayesian analyses it yielded the fewest trees in the 95% credible set, it resolved the ...