INTRODUCTION Tularemia is an uncommon but potentially fatal zoonosis. А second outbreak of tularemia in Bulgaria, about 40 years after the first, occurred in 1997 in two western regions, near the Serbian border. In 2003 tularemia reemerged in the same foci. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics and the efficacy of antibiotic therapy in a tularemia resurgence in...

In 2001, The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) studied children’s reading literacy and the factors associated with its acquisition. The IEA’s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) assessed the reading achievement of 9and 10-yearsolds and collected information about the experiences children had at home and school when learning to rea...

The striking electoral success of the Ataka party in 2005 and 2009 challenges the scholarly analysis and the political decision-making alike. Do really extreme right wing ideology and policies have fertile ground in Bulgaria? If yes, why is this the case and to what extent? Combining historical and social-structural approaches, the author concludes that the appearance of the Ataka party and its...

Abstract The 1,500-km-long Banatitic Magmatic and Metallogenetic Belt (BMMB) of Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria is a complex calc-alkaline magmatic arc of Late Cretaceous age. It hosts a variety of magmatic-hydrothermal Cu, Au, Mo, Zn, Pb and Fe deposits, including Europe’s only world-class porphyry-copper deposits. Regional metallogeny can be linked to subduction of the Vardar Ocean during the La...

tological disease, such as atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis and urticaria, and the accompanying symptom of some systemic disorders, like chronic renals, cholestasis and diabetes mellitus. Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects 10—20% of all children, and its prevalence has gradually increased over the past few decades. It is now well established that endogeno...