In 1994, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the goal of eliminating diphtheria within the WHO European Region by the year 2000. However, in 1990 an epidemic emerged within the Russian Federation and spread to other countries, including Latvia, by 1994. We describe national surveillance and immunisation coverage data in Latvia from 1994 to 2014 and present historical data from 1946. We...

AIM To explore the experiences over time of using mobility devices (MDs) among very old women in the context of everyday life in Latvia. METHODS This study utilized a multiple case-study design that employed an explanatory mixed-methods approach. A combination of quantitative survey data on home and health and qualitative interview data for each participant were used to create three narrative...

AIM Patients suffering from colorectal polyps are more likely to develop a malignant condition with poor prognosis. The aim of the study is to investigate clinical and molecular features of colorectal polyposis syndromes in Latvia in order to offer and provide predictive genetic testing for the affected families, as well as to evaluate the frequency of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) in La...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Premature mortality associated with alcohol intake is of particular concern in several countries of the former Soviet Union. This study explored self reported alcohol consumption (beer, wine, spirits) and its determinants in the Baltic Republics. DESIGN Cross sectional surveys conducted in 1997. SETTINGS Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. PARTICIPANTS Representative samples o...

s of MMA2015, May 26–29, 2015, Sigulda, Latvia c © 2015 ON HIGHER DEGREE F-TRANSFORMS BASED ON B-SPLINES MARTINS KOKAINIS and SVETLANA ASMUSS 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Latvia Zeļļu iela 8, R̄ıga, LV-1002, Latvia 2 Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia Raiņa bulvāris 29, R̄ıga, LV-1459, Latvia E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] The ...

As a potential member country to the European Union (EU), Latvia has harmonized the national environmental legislation with the EU air quality (AQ) legislation. The AQ management system in the country is being developed in accordance with the requirements laid down in the appropriate EU directives thus introducing advanced management tools based on the AQ modelling. According to the Latvian leg...

During my stay in Riga (one of the oldest cities in Europe' and capital of a country about the same size as the Republic of Ireland with a population of 2 5 million) I spoke at the Ministry ofHealth and at the First Children's Hospital. I was privileged to have Professor I Lazovskis (Juris's father and professor of internal medicine at the Latvian Medical Academy) as my interpreter. As we sat i...

After nearly two decades without a diphtheria case in Latvia, the disease reappeared in 1986. From 1990 to 1996, case counts were highest among adults 40-49 years of age, school-aged children, and adolescents. Nonetheless, the average annualized incidence of disease was highest among infants and preschoolers. In August 1995, mass vaccination efforts began to provide adults 25-60 years of age wi...

To improve multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) detection, we successfully introduced the rpoB gene mutation line probe assay into the national laboratory in Latvia, a country with epidemic MDR-TB. The assay detected rifampin resistance with 91% sensitivity and 96% specificity within 1 to 5 days (vs. 12-47 days for BACTEC).

The aim of this study was to determine the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 alleles in two groups of patients in Latvia: patients with Lyme borreliosis and patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis. The study included 216 patients with Lyme borreliosis, 29 patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis and 282 control persons. All surveyed persons were residents of Latvia. The HLA-DR genotyping was performed ...