BACKGROUND Rapid molecular diagnostics, with their ability to quickly identify genetic mutations associated with drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical specimens, have great potential as tools to control multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB). The Qiagen PyroMark Q96 ID system is a commercially available pyrosequencing (PSQ) platform that has been validate...

BACKGROUND This study examines socio-demographic profiles, injecting risk and use of health services among young injectors (15-24) in Albania, Moldova, Romania and Serbia. The objective was to provide age-disaggregated data to identify differences between adolescents (<18) and youth (18-24), and help fill the gap in knowledge on the youngest injectors in this region. METHODS Cross sectional s...

Human capital is important for entrepreneurship, and skilled workers are a key resource improving firms’ competitiveness. The study undertaken analyzes the situation of human as an source entrepreneurial activity Republic Moldova. As such, present research oriented towards analysis most eloquent indicators in Moldova, respectively comparative these relation to other states region, based on inte...

today regional integration has become the main source of concern for governments. in the era of globalization different parts of the world have formed regional groupings. realizing their geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic status, these regions have regional structures with various degrees of regionalism. geopolitical region of the caucasus is considered as one of the geopolitical regio...

With the aggravation of interethnic relations in Moldova early 1990s, The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) opened and registered several parishes self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. newspapers Dnestrovskaya Pravda, Dniester, Trudovoy Tiraspol regulary published about UAOC activities first half 1990s. journalism included reports, speeches by representatives clergy, a...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Department of Microelectronics and Biomed Moldova, 168 Stefan cel Mare Av., MD-2004 Department of Chemistry, University Coll WC1H 0AJ, UK. E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Faculty of Engineering, Institute for Universität zu Kiel, Kaiserstr. 2, D-24143, K [email protected]; [email protected] Department of Physics, University of Centra School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Ma UK...