Healthcare associated infection in adult surgical and medical patients hospitalized in tertiary hospital in Belgrade, Serbia: a seven years prospective cohort study.

: () infection (CDI) is one of the most common healthcare-associated (HA) infections in contemporary medicine. The risk factors (RFs) for HA CDI in medical and surgical patients are poorly investigated in countries with a limited resource healthcare system. Therefore, the aim of the study was to investigate differences in patients' characteristics, factors related to healthcare and outcomes associated with HA CDI in surgical and medical patients in tertiary healthcare centre in Serbia.

Risk factors for infection in surgical patients hospitalized in a tertiary hospital in Belgrade, Serbia: a case-control study.

Background: The objective of this study was to investigate independent risk factors (RFs) connected with healthcare-associated (HA) infection (CDI) in surgical patients, its frequency per surgical wards and in-hospital-mortality at a single hospital.

Methods: Risk factors for the infection were prospectively assessed among surgical patients with laboratory confirmed HA CDI and compared with a control group without HA CDI.

Results: The overall incidence rate of HA CDI was 2.

Smallpox as an actual biothreat: lessons learned from its outbreak in ex-Yugoslavia in 1972.

Variola (smallpox) virus is classified as class A of potential biological weapons, due to its microbiological, genetic, antigenic and epidemiological characteristics. The potential danger is more real because vaccination against smallpox has stopped since disease eradication in 1979. That is why we want to share our unique, rich experience and acquired knowledge in the fight against this highly contagious and deadly disease during the smallpox outbreak in ex-Yugoslavia in 1972.

Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in occupationally exposed persons in the Belgrade area, Serbia.

Lyme disease (LD) is a natural focal zoonotic disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is mainly transmitted through infected Ixodes ricinus tick bites. The presence and abundance of ticks in various habitats, the infectivity rate, as well as prolonged human exposure to ticks are factors that may affect the infection risk as well as the incidence of LD. In recent years, 20% to 25% of ticks infected with different borrelial species, as well as about 5,300 citizens with LD, have been registered in the Belgrade area.

[Therapy of chronic hepatitis C--virologic response monitoring].

Background/aim: Virological testing is considered to be essential in the management of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in order to diagnose infection, and, most importantly, as a guide for treatment decisions and assess the virological response to antiviral therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of a sustained virological response (SVR) and various factors associated with response rates in chronic hepatitis C infected patients treated with peg interferon alpha (PEG-INF) and ribavirin (RBV) combination therapy.

Methods: A total of 34 patients, treated with PEG-IFN and RBV were studied.

Monitoring of cytomegalovirus infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

Background/aim: More than 90% of worldwide population is infected with human cytomegalovirus (CMV), one of the most common agents which complicate immunocompromised patients. Viral infections, in particular CMV ones are still a major cause of moratality and morbidity after stem cell transplantation (SCT). Monitoring is performed by detecting CMV-Ag or virus DNA in peripheral blood.

[Early diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infections in organ recipients].

Introduction: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections and acute rejection of organs are the commonest complications in the early posttransplantation period. Clinical picture of CMV reactivation in organ recipients may have a dramatic course, occasionally even with a fatal outcome.

Diagnosis Of Cmv: In order to prevent acute rejection of organs in the posttransplantation period, patients are subjected to immunosuppressive therapy, which sustains reactivation of CMV.