Knowledge of and attitudes towards medical research ethics among first year doctoral students in Slovenia at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana.

Background: Research ethics and attitudes should be the main concern of those who are conducting and publishing research in medicine.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire among first year postgraduate doctoral students in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana during the academic year 2022/2023.

Results: There were 54 out of 57 doctoral students included in the study, with a mean age (SD) of 29.

Pregnant women with erythema migrans and isolation of borreliae from blood: course and outcome after treatment with ceftriaxone.

The course and outcome in 7 pregnant European women with erythema migrans and borreliae isolated from blood, treated with intravenous ceftriaxone for 14 days, were uneventful, and the outcome of their pregnancies was good. Spirochetemia was not associated with constitutional symptoms.

Solitary and multiple erythema migrans in children: comparison of demographic, clinical and laboratory findings.

Background: Data on European children with erythema migrans (EM) are limited.

Patients And Methods: 553 patients, 333 with solitary and 220 with multiple EM, diagnosed between 1996 and 2000, were included in the prospective study. Demographic, clinical and laboratory data including borrelial serum immunofluorescence assay antibody titers and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato blood culture results were obtained; findings in solitary and multiple EM were compared.

Children with multiple erythema migrans: are there any pre-treatment symptoms and/or signs suggestive for central nervous system involvement?

Objective: To establish eventual signs and symptoms suggestive for central nervous system involvement in children with multiple erythema migrans.

Methods: Patients younger than 15 years with multiple erythema migrans, diagnosed at our department from 1996 to 2000, were included in this prospective study. Demographic, clinical and laboratory findings were obtained and compared for a group of patients with pleocytosis (interpreted as a sign of central nervous system involvement) and a group of children with normal cerebrospinal fluid findings.