Triglyceride level as a potential marker of residual cardiovascular risk and its relation to HeartScore.

Background: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD) are still the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Elevated LDL-cholesterol is established as a strong marker of cardiovascular risk. Some researchers believe that measuring triglyceride levels gives a good assessment of the residual risk for ASCVD besides the measurement of LDL-cholesterol.

[Agglutination as screening test in routine diagnostic of listeriosis].

Introduction: The persons with weakened immunity, newborn infants and pregnant women are very much sensitive on infection with bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria can readily invade the placenta and precipitate premature labor and fetal death. To confirm diagnosis is very difficult because listeriosis is disease very similar to the others acute diseases.

Listeria monocytogenes as the possible cause of the spontanous abortion in female of the fertile age.

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive, weakly pathogenic bacterium able to grow also at the temperature of 40 degrees C. A man most often gets affected by consuming contaminated food and water. Animals can carry bacteria although they have not to appear ill, then their meat and milk products are the source of infection of human being.

[Listeria monocytogenes in women of reproductive age].

Objective: Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is gram-positive bacteria linear shaped which grows good also at refrigerator temperature (4 degrees C). The bacteria is resistant on high and low temperatures. This bacteria can be found in the dirt, rotted vegetation, vegetables and fruit, milk and dairy products, and also in the meat and processed meat.

Significance of the interferon (IFN) in the therapy.

Interferons belong to the group of the regulatory glycoproteins, of low molecular mass. They are the products of infected cell-genome, but not virus, as a consequence of the cause answer by different inductors. Human IFN are divided on the sequence of amino-acids into three groups: Alpha, Beta and Gamma interferons.

Demonstration of different endocervical staining methods and their usefulness in the diagnosis of the chlamydial infection in exfoliated cells advantages and disadvantages.

Microscopic demonstration of chlamydial inclusions within cells offered the first laboratory procedure supporting the clinical diagnosis of chlamydial infection. Our aim is to evaluate the usefulness of different endocervical staining methods in diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection within exfoliated cells of the endocervix. The cytological test for the detection of chlamydial inclusions in genital tract infection, though not as sensitive and specific as isolation in the cell culture monolayers, is still of the diagnostic value.

[Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in cervical smear samples with determined HPV].

Objective: Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) causes infertility, ectopyc pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and conjunctivitis. Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a virus with broad spectrum effects. This particularly refers to HPV of high oncogenic potential (HPV - HR) because of its participation in cervical oncogenesis.

[Diagnosis of chlamydial infections--personal experience].

Objectives: In this paper we evaluated the difference of analytic sensitivity, specificity and predictive values using immunoassays based on antigen detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) in endocervical swab specimens.

Patients And Methods: 120 fertile female patients were tested for the presence of Ct in the endocervix during two years. The patients represented two risk groups: moderate risk, and low risk group.