Publications by authors named "D Souverein"
: () infections can progress to severe respiratory complications, necessitating intensive care treatment. Recent post COVID-19 pandemic surges underscore the need for timely diagnosis, given potential diagnostic method limitations. A retrospective case series analysis was conducted on PCR-positive patients admitted to two Dutch secondary hospitals' ICUs between January 2023 and February 2024.
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- There has been an increase in pneumonia cases and other related infections at a hospital in the Netherlands since October 2023.
- This rise in infections is higher than it has been since 2011.
- The new patients are younger now, with an average age of 28 years old, compared to 40 years old in 2019 and 2020, so doctors should pay extra attention to kids with breathing problems.
Accurate surveillance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence includes large-scale antibody testing of the population. Current testing methods require collection of venous blood samples by a healthcare worker, or dried blood spot (DBS) collection using finger prick, however this might have some logistic and processing limitations. We investigated the performance of the Ser-Col device for detecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies using a finger prick: DBS-like collection system that includes a lateral flow paper for serum separation and allows for automated large scale analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Oropharyngeal (OP) and nasopharyngeal (NP) sampling has historically been considered the reference specimen type used for respiratory virus detection. Saliva could be a less invasive alternative for SARS-CoV-2 detection, but limited evidence is available.
Methods: The technical and clinical performance of saliva was compared to OP/NP on the Hologic Panther platform with two Aptima assays, the End-Point Transcription-Mediated Amplification assay (EP-TMA) and Real-Time Transcription-Mediated Amplification assay (RT-TMA).
Purpose: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are highly prevalent and difficult to diagnose in older adults. We aimed to evaluate the applicability of Dutch Association of Urology (NVU) and Dutch Association of Elderly Care Physicians (Verenso) guidelines in terms of diagnostic outcomes and treatment decisions in hospitalised older adults with suspected UTIs.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted on 225 geriatric patients with a urine culture taken in 2019, to determine conformity of the studied population to NVU and Verenso.