After gaining independence at the Congress of Berlin (1878), and the declaration of the Kingdom of Serbia (1882), young Serbian country began to develop strongly economically. Frequent and turbulent political changes during this period also caused some changes in cultural and educational life of the country. Many Serbian intellectuals then came back to free Serbia in order to transfer knowledge...

West Nile virus (WNV), a neurovirulent mosquito-transmissible zoonotic virus, has caused recent outbreaks in Europe, including Serbia from August until October 2012. Although humans can be infected, birds are the main natural WNV reservoir. To assess WNV circulation in northern Serbia, 133 wild birds were investigated. These comprised resident and migratory birds, collected between January and ...

INTRODUCTION Alcohol is most abused psychoactive substance among youth. Analyzing attitudes on alcohol, patterns and consequences we are getting inputs important for implementing evidence based preventive measures. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze drinking patterns and expectations and alcohol risk perception by gender and region and determine correlation between attitudes and o...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop a framework and best estimates of prevalence for the most at risk populations (MARPs) for HIV/AIDS to include sex workers (SW), men who have sex with men (MSM) and injecting drug users (IDUs) in order to evaluate national HIV/AIDS programmatic targets across the Republic of Serbia. DESIGN A national, cross-sectional study and direct enumeration, ...

INTRODUCTION Access to combination antiretroviral treatment (cART) and toxicity profiles of antiretroviral medications have significantly improved during the last three decades. In order to optimise treatment outcomes, achieve favourable virological suppression and immunological status, balanced with potential adverse effects of cART, it is considered beneficial to maintain first-line antiretro...

It has generally been accepted that breast cancer (BC) cells are equally responsive to chemotherapy (C�T) irrespective of ER status. �owever, subset analyses of disease outcome in recently reported trials on neoadjuvant and adjuvant C�T brought new information about the issue. The subject of this paper is to review these data and to communicate our own results. NSABP B27 was designed to evaluat...

Trichinellosis is one of the most widespread parasitic zoonoses in the world. Over the past decade, Eastern Europe has experienced a re-emergence of trichinellosis, connected with the social, political and economic changes of the 1990s. A high prevalence of Trichinella infection in domestic animals and in humans has been reported in Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and Croatia (Cuperlov...

AIM To analyze the pharmacy network (structure and resources) in Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia and its relation to public expenditures for medicines. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study using the officially published data for the period 2003-2008 in four selected countries. Data sources were relevant national institutions. RESULTS In 2008, Serbia had 27.5, Bulgaria 66.8, ...

Childhood obesity is one of the most important present public health issues. Complications of obesity once observed only in the population of obese adults, like type 2 diabetes and other disturbances in glucose regulation, are emerging in the pediatric population along with the pandemic of obesity. Prevalence of these co-morbidities of obesity varies widely in the populations of children and ad...

It is well known that radon and its short-lived progenies have the most impact to the population effective dose from radioactive sources [1]. Precise and accurate radon monitoring results should be the basis for the establishment of the national reference level and implementation of radon action plans. During the period February and March 2015, Laboratory for Radioactivity and Dose Measurements...