1 State Medical Diagnostic Center, Dermatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; 2 Kazakh Medical University Continuing Education, Dermatology, Manas Street 34, Almaty 050057, Kazakhstan; 3 University G. Marconi of Rome, Dermatology and Venereology, Rome 00192, Italy; 4 Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatologic Surgery; Onkoderma, private clinic for dermatologi...

The non-marine trigonioidid bivalves show five phases of radiation in the Cretaceous of Pal-Asia: pre-Aptian (?Valanginian/Hauterivian-Barremian), Aptian, Albian, Cenomanian and Turonian-Maastrichtian. Their distribution patterns show two distinct palaeo-river systems feeding trigonioidids. Before the Cenomanian, the river system occupied the southwestern-southern-southeastern Pal-Asian contine...

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The Neolithic revolution, which began some 12,000 years ago in Turkey and in other parts of the Fertile Crescent, caused man to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, which on its turn speeded up the process of domestication of animals. The dog was already domesticated before this revolution and had served man as help in hunting. During hunting, man probably figured out that a few of the hunted species c...

In 2020–2022, the complete taxonomic composition of flora for botanical-geographical plot “Steppes Ukraine” at M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden NAS Ukraine (NBG) was studied and analyzed. This established NBG in 1949 to demonstrate floristic diversity Ukrainian Steppes ex situ. According inventory results, 347 species infraspecific taxa from 196 genera 53 families higher vascular plants w...

Aim The steppe grasslands of eastern Central Europe are exceptionally species rich and valuable from a nature conservation point view. However, their historical biogeography is still poorly understood. Here we use the regional diversity habitat specialists chloroplast DNA data to investigate potential long-term refugia in this region. Location Pannonian Basin adjacent regions; SW Russia. Taxon ...

The scientific problems of the assessing of the impact of environmental factors on human health and the explanation of health-improving activities today are the priorities of state environmental policy in all developed countries. Environment and human health are the actual problems, which currently have the attention of the Republic of Kazakhstan. One of the crisis regions of Kazakhstan is reco...

Serum samples from all patients with culture-confirmed brucellosis including those with chronic disease from Kazakhstan tested positive in the serum agglutination test for titers > or = 1:25 and reacted in the Brucella immunoglobulin M/immunoglobulin G lateral flow assay (LFA) confirming the high sensitivity of these assays. The strong reactivity in the LFA observed for the majority (92.1%) of ...

G o l d i n (1963) found in Kazakhstan an interesting strain of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). B r e a k (1978) established that this Kazakhstan strain (Ka strain) of TMV was defective and that it infected tobacco plants very slowly or the systemic infection was lacking. Its thermal inactivation point lay between 75 and 80° C. In fresh infective sap virus particles of normal length were found very...

Introduction In order to transition the forecasting, estimation and management of epidemic risks to individual administrative areas, the Agency for Consumer Rights Protection of Kazakhstan has developed a concept for modernizing the existing national system of the epidemiological surveillance (SES). It is proposed that the data from the SES (epidemiology, sanitary and epidemiological background...