Epidemiological Characteristics of Rickettsial Diseases in Croatia

Epidemiological Characteristics of Dementia Treatment in Croatia.

BACKGROUND In spite of the increase in the number of patients with dementia in countries with older population, basic epidemiologic data are still scarce. The objective of this paper is to investigate pharmacoepidemiological characteristics of treatment of dementia in Croatia, and to present them in the context of certain epidemiological characteristics that illustrate the growing pressure this...

Epidemioloπke osobine spolno prenosivih bolesti u Hrvatskoj Epidemiological Characteristics of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Croatia

MEDICUS 2003. Vol. 12, No. 2, 157 162 Spolno prenosive bolesti (SPB, u engleskome: STD) (1) oduvijek su optereÊivale, a sigurno Êe i u buduÊnosti optereÊivati ljudsku zajednicu, s obzirom na to da je spolni kontakt, pri kojem te bolesti mogu nastati, jedan od najuobiËajenijih i najËeπÊih, prirodnih, a uz to i najneposrednijih meuljudskih kontakata. Izvor zaraze je Ëovjek, bolestan ili asimptom...

Q fever in Croatia: war-induced changes in epidemiological characteristics.

The article describes the epidemiological characteristics of Q fever in Croatia, during the period before and after the Homeland War. In the ten years prior to the Homeland War (1983-1992) 1053 cases of Q fever were recorded, 16.2% (171) of which on islands and in coastal areas. In the period after the Homeland War (1995-2008), a total of 654 cases was recorded, 59.9% (392) of which on islands ...

Treatment in the Rickettsial Diseases

Epidemiological characteristics of human prion diseases

Human prion diseases are a group of transmissible, progressive, and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorders, which include Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, and fatal familial insomnia. Human prion diseases affect approximately 1-2 persons per million worldwide annually, occurring in sporadic, inherited, and acquired forms. These diseases have ...