Lecture book of annual two-day meeting of Slovenian microbiologists and immunologists organized by Slovenian Society for Clinical Microbiology and Hospital Infections, Slovenian Medical Association, and Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. The topic of this year's meeting was »Infections of the central nervous system«. Lectures were presented by leading microbiology, infectious disease and neurology specialists from Slovenia.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 26595801Immunology handbook - laboratory manual is designed for undergraduate students attending the Immunology course. Excercises in the manual represent basic procedures that are used in daily routine diagnostics and in research work in an immunology laboratoy. Content is divided into chapters which correlate with the study material in the textbook. The nowelty of the manual is that some themes are addressed as problem based studies.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 249869056Manica Premru Müller wrote a Slovenian textbook Infection prevention in dentistry. The textbook is intended for students of dentistry, dentists and other dental professionals. The publication educates health professionals about the transmission and prevention of infections from patient to patient, or between healthcare professionals and patients.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 264146176Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is recognized as one of the major causes of infection-related cancer worldwide, as well as the causal factor in other diseases. Strong evidence for a causal etiology with HPV has been stated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer for cancers of the cervix uteri, penis, vulva, vagina, anus and oropharynx (including base of the tongue and tonsils). Of the estimated 12.7 million new cancers occurring in 2008 worldwide, 4.8% were attributable to HPV infection, with substantially higher incidence and mortality rates seen in developing versus developed countries. In recent years, we have gained tremendous knowledge about HPVs and their interactions with host cells, tissues and the immune system; have validated and implemented strategies for safe and efficacious prophylactic vaccination against HPV infections; have developed increasingly sensitive and specific molecular diagnostic tools for HPV detection for use in cervical cancer screening; and have substantially increased global awareness of HPV and its many associated diseases in women, men, and children. While these achievements exemplify the success of biomedical research in generating important public health interventions, they also generate new and daunting challenges: costs of HPV prevention and medical care, the implementation of what is technically possible, socio-political resistance to prevention opportunities, and the very wide ranges of national economic capabilities and health care systems. Gains and challenges faced in the quest for comprehensive control of HPV infection and HPV-related cancers and other disease are summarized in this review. The information presented may be viewed in terms of a reframed paradigm of prevention of cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases that will include strategic combinations of at least four major components: 1) routine introduction of HPV vaccines to women in all countries, 2) extension and simplification of existing screening programs using HPV-based technology, 3) extension of adapted screening programs to developing populations, and 4) consideration of the broader spectrum of cancers and other diseases preventable by HPV vaccination in women, as well as in men. Despite the huge advances already achieved, there must be ongoing efforts including international advocacy to achieve widespread%optimally universal%implementation of HPV prevention strategies in both developed and developing countries. This article summarizes information from the chapters presented in a special ICO Monograph %Comprehensive Control of HPV Infections and Related Diseases% Vaccine Volume 30, Supplement 5, 2012. Additional details on each subtopic and full information regarding the supporting literature references may be found in the original chapters.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 31204057Prof. dr. Tatjana Avšič Županc is a recognized scientist and an expert in the field of virology at home and abroad. Her main fields of professional interests are vector transmitted pathogens, in terms of ecological, biological and genetic factors affect the natural environment and the hosts, and viral haemorrhagic fevers which include also Ebola virus. In an interview for the newspaper Delo prof. dr. Tatjana Avšič Županc has presented Ebola virus and peculiarities of the current outbreak in West Africa. She is also the leader of the intervention team at the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, which was also involved in international mission in Guinea in 2014.
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