Introduction/Aim. Agreement or disagreement of inflammatory parameters becomes important for making diagnosis when disparate values are encountered in a patient with suspected sepsis. The aim of our study was to test the agreement between the four commonly used tests for diagnosing systemic infection: white blood cell count (WBC), serum levels of C...

By Marija Bulić, Marija Anđelković, Marina Mitrović, Marijana Stanojević-Pirković, Marina Kostić, Slobodan Janković, Jovan Luković, Violeta Mladenović, Ivana Nikolić

Summary The aim of the paper was to determine the factors related to the initial therapy that may contribute to death from severe necrotizing acute pancreatitis and to analyze their clinical importance as well as possible additive effects. A retrospective case-control study included all adult patients treated for severe necrotizing acute ...

By Irena Kostić, Slobodan Janković, Srđjan Stefanović, Marina Kostić, Anđela Milojević, Viktorija Artinović, Ksenija Vučićević, Ljiljana Nikolić, Iva Grubor, Milena Jurišević, Stefan Stojanović, Jelena Petrović, Ivana Jelić, Ivan Praznik, Nataša Đorđević, Predrag Lazarević, Tanja Luković, Nela Đonović, Živan Babić, Radiša Vojinović, Zorica Savović, Dragče Radovanović, Dragan Čanović, Bojan Stojanović, Ivan Radosavljević, Marko Spasić

Summary The aim of this paper was to determine the trend of diseases and epidemiological characteristics of viral antigen carrying of hepatitis B for better implementation of prevention and control of the disease activity. The annual reports, reports of diseases - deaths from infectious diseases, epidemiological survey of the Public Health Institut...

By Marina Kostić, Biljana Kocić, Nataša Rančić

SUMMARY The aim of the paper was to determine the disease trends and characteristics of anti-HCV antibody carrier status for the purpose of better prevention and disease control. The materials used were annual reports, reports of diseases and deaths from infectious diseases, and epidemiological surveys of the Public Health Institute Niš i...

By Marina Kostić, Biljana Kocić, Lidija Popović Dragonjić

Summary Sex education is aimed at equipping individuals with sex-related information, motivation, and behavioral skills that will enable them to avoid sex-related problems and to achieve sexual well-being. Safer sex promotion and condom promotion and distribution programmes have grown significantly since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Cond...

By Biljana Kocić, Marina Kostić, Tatjana Cagulović