On the territory of France fenugreek is spread since long on a line from the Gironde to the Italian border. In Belarus experimental cultivation has begun since 2004. Experiments with fenugreek variety Ovari 4 were conducted about time of sowing in order to study their growth, development, and evaluation of productivity in the North-east part of Belarus and Central part of France. Reaching full ...

Galina Chaban,‡ R. Benny Gerber,*,‡ Mikhail V. Korolkov,§,| Jo1rn Manz,| Masha Y. Niv,‡ and Burkhard Schmidt⊥ Fritz-Haber-Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew UniVersity, GiVat Ram, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel, B. I. StepanoV Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Skaryna AVe. 70, 220602 Minsk, Republic of Belarus, Institut für Chemie, Freie UniVersität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, D-1419...

Multiple Outbreaks of Nosocomial Salmonellosis in Russia and Belarus Caused by a Single Clone of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Producing an Extended-Spectrum -Lactamase M. Edelstein,* M. Pimkin, T. Dmitrachenko, V. Semenov, N. Kozlova, D. Gladin, A. Baraniak, and L. Stratchounski Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Smolensk State Medical Academy, Smolensk, 214019, and St. Petersb...

BACKGROUND Hib vaccine has gradually been introduced into more and more countries during the past two decades, partly due to GAVI Alliance support to low-income countries. However, since Hib disease burden is difficult to establish in settings with limited diagnostic capacities and since the vaccine continues to be relatively expensive, some Governments remain doubtful about its value leading t...

The economic dependence on Russia that Ukraine and Belarus inherited from Soviet planners in 1991 was enormous. The two new states depended on Russian markets, in which Ukrainian and Belarusian producers sold goods that were uncompetitive in the rest of the world. Ukraine and Belarus also depended on Russia for crucial imports. Energy was the most important of all. Ukraine and Belarus relied he...

We investigated three main niche components (diet composition, habitat use and diel activity rhythms) to examine how the weasel Mustela nivalis and the stoat M. erminea, both specialised predators of small rodents, could permanently coexist in Belarus. Our research was carried out in temperate forests of Belarus, in two study areas with different environmental conditions: 1) continuous dry-land...

In Belarus and other Slavic countries, founder mutations in the BRCA1 gene are responsible for a significant proportion of breast cancer cases. BRCA1 mutations also predispose to ovarian cancer. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of the three BRCA1 founder mutations in Belarus. The study group consisted of 134 consecutive, newly diagnosed cases of ovarian cancer after surgical ...

BACKGROUND Gonorrhoea and widely spread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in its etiological agent Neisseria gonorrhoeae are major public health concerns worldwide. Gonococcal AMR surveillance nationally and internationally, to identify emerging resistance and inform treatment guidelines, is imperative for public health purposes. In 2009, AMR surveillance was initiated in Belarus, Eastern Europe b...

BACKGROUND Belarus is an Eastern European country, which has been little studied ethnobotanically. The aim of the study was to compare largely unpublished 19th century sources with more contemporary data on the use of wild food plants. METHODS The information on 19th century uses is based on twelve, mainly unpublished, responses to Józef Rostafiński's questionnaire from 1883, and the newly di...