Bénédicte Delaere

Infectious diseases

Prof. Bénédicte Delaere MD, PhD

CHU UCL Namur, Site Godinne, Department of Infectious Diseases

Member of Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC), UCLouvain

ResearchGate

Expertise and research interests

Infectiology - Travel medicine and infectious disease - Immunocompromised patients

Research projects

  • Facteurs de risque d’acquisition de Pseudomonas aeruginosa dans les voies respiratoires des patients en réanimation. Master thesis by Flavie Derlet, UCLouvain. Under the supervision of Prof. Bénédicte Delaere, CHU UCL Namur (2021).
  • Composition du virome sanguin chez des patients immunodéprimés - Transplantation pulmonaire. Clinical research project by Prof. Bénédicte Delaere, CHU UCL Namur.
  • Surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections - SARI. Participation to sentinel network of hospitals. Marc Bourgeois and Prof. Bénédicte Delaere, CHU UCL Namur.
  • Severe respiratory viral infections and hospital antimicrobial stewardship opportunities : confirmation of the impact of a point of care molecular diagnosis in winter months. Clinical research project by Marc Bourgeois, Dr. Nathalie Ausselet and Prof. Bénédicte Delaere, CHU UCL Namur.

   In collaboration with UNamur

  • Role of viral infections in APOBEC3-induced cancers - when high-throughput direct sequencing promotes both fundamental and clinical research. Research collaboration between Prof. Nicolas Gillet, UNamur and Prof. Bénédicte Delaere, CHU UCL Namur (2018).
 
  • Etude CAPTIF VRS. Protocole de recherche observationelle multicentrique. Caractéristiques et PronosTic des adultes InFectés par le VRS en réanimation. Prof. Bénédicte Delaere, CHU UCL Namur (promoter)

Selected publications

Denayer S, Dufrasne FE, Monsieurs B, van Eycken R, Houben S, Seyler L, Demuyser T, van Nedervelde E, Bourgeois M, Delaere B, Magerman K, Jouck D, Lissoir B, Sion C, Reynders M, Petit E, Dauby N, Hainaut M, Laenen L, Maes P, Baele G, Dellicour S, Cuypers L, André E, Couvreur S, Brondeel R, Barbezange C, Bossuyt N, van Gucht S. Genomic monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants using sentinel SARI hospital surveillance. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2023 Oct 13;17(10):e13202.

Spinewine A, Pétein C, Evrard P, Vastrade C, Laurent C, Delaere B, Henrard S. Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccination among Hospital Staff-Understanding What Matters to Hesitant People. Vaccines (Basel). 2021 May 6;9(5):469.

Subissi L, Bossuyt N, Reynders M, Gérard M, Dauby N, Bourgeois M, Delaere B, Quoilin S, Van Gucht S, Thomas I, Barbezange C. Capturing respiratory syncytial virus season in Belgium using the influenza severe acute respiratory infection surveillance network, season 2018/19. Euro Surveill. 2020 Oct;25(39):1900627.

Bourgeois M, Ausselet N, Gerard V, de Canniere L, Scius N, Michaux I, Huang TD, Bogaerts P, Vandamme C, Bihin B, Delaere B. Severe influenza/respiratory syncytial virus infections and hospital antimicrobial stewardship opportunities: impact of a 4-year surveillance including molecular diagnosis. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Oct;41(10):1184-1189.

Contact

benedicte.delaere@chuuclnamur.uclouvain.be