Microbiological aspects of the traditional Travnik/Vlašić cheese manufactured in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The microbiological aspects of traditional Travnik/Vlašić cheese was investigated. The cheese was made traditionally, from raw sheep milk at three small farms (A, B, C) on Mountain Vlašić. The microbiological quality of the cheese was examined during three stages of ripening (5, 30, 60 days) and followed during three seasons (3 years).

Draft Genome Sequence of the Mercury-Resistant Bacterium Acinetobacter idrijaensis Strain MII, Isolated from a Mine-Impacted Area, Idrija, Slovenia.

We report here the first draft assembly for the genome of Acinetobacter idrijaensis strain MII, isolated from the Idrija mercury mine area (Slovenia). This strain shows a strikingly high tolerance to mercury, and the genome sequence shows genes involved in the mechanisms for heavy metal tolerance pathways and multidrug efflux pumps.

[The impact of secondary traumatization on the mental health of the patients with PTSD].

Aim: To determine the impact of secondary traumatization on the mental health of patients suffering from chronic PTSD.

Methods: This study involved two groups of subjects who were diagnosed with chronic PTSD. Group One is comprised of 41 subjects who were included in treatment for the first time.

[Follow-up of the structure of patients treated at the Out-patient Department for Clinical Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Disorders at the Psychiatric Clinic in Sarajevo].

Researches in the field of psychiatric disorders epidemilogy have shown that difference in the psychiatric morbidity between males and females exists within the categories of non-psychotic disorders. Findings of numerous researches regarding use of the various forms of community mental health services indicated that females are more present in the out-patient and in-patient community mental health treatment, as well as their higher number in community mental health treatment. Research which has been done in 2002 at the Department for Clinical Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Disorders at the Psychiatric Clinic in Sarajevo, which has been focused on years 1990, 1993, 2000 has, for peacefull 1990, shown identical results comparing with the findings of similar studies which have been conducted in USA and Wester Europe countries.

Quality of life assessment as the treatment outcome evaluation of war torture survivors according to gender.

Objective: The objective is the evaluation of treatment outcome difference between men and women through measuring quality of life persons who experienced war torture in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Method: The research is analytical-descriptive and retrospective. It was conducted at two samples which were homogeneous according to gender.

The impact of long-term past exposure to elemental mercury on antioxidative capacity and lipid peroxidation in mercury miners.

Limited information is available on the effects of chronic mercury exposure in relation to the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It is known from in vitro and in vivo studies that Hg can promote lipid peroxidation through promotion of free radical generation, and interaction with antioxidative enzymes and reduction of bioavailable selenium. The objective of the study was to test the hypothesis that long-term past occupational exposure to elemental Hg (Hg0) can modify antioxidative capacity and promote lipid peroxidation in miners.

[Differences in coping strategies in those who experienced the trauma of war or torture and the local population].

Aim: To define the differences in coping strategies between the victims of torture and the local inhabitants with the experience of war.

Method: The subjects were divided in two groups. Each group consisted of 50 subjects.

Renal function in miners intermittently exposed to elemental mercury vapour.

The authors investigated renal damage in 45 mercury miners under conditions of relatively short and low-level exposure to elemental (metallic) mercury vapour (Hg0). The analysis included urinary mercury, immunoelectrophoresis of urinary proteins, immunofixation and high-resolution electrophoresis, quantitative analysis of urinary albumin, and urinary alpha 1-microglobulin before and after exposure. The activity of urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) enzyme was determined after exposure.

Cancer occurrence among European mercury miners.

Objectives: To study the carcinogenicity of inorganic mercury in humans.

Methods: We studied the mortality from cancer among 6784 male and 265 female workers of four mercury mines and mills in Spain, Slovenia, Italy and the Ukraine. Workers were employed between the beginning of the century and 1990; the follow-up period lasted from the 1950s to the 1990s.