Sub-species diversity of pepper populations of Xanthomonas euvesicatoria in Bulgaria and Macedonia in 2012 was the object of this study. Species determination of 44 strains was performed by molecular methods using two pairs of species-specific primers and RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) analysis of the 16S-23S ITS region with HpaII. The populations were characterized by genotypi...

Clinical importance of the most common CHEK2 (IVS2+1 G>A, 1100delC, I157T and del5395) and NBN (R215W and 657del5) gene mutations for breast cancer development in Macedonian breast cancer patients is unknown. We performed a case-control study including 300 Macedonian breast cancer patients and 283 Macedonian healthy controls. Genotyping was done using a fast and highly accurate single-nucleotid...

AIM The aim of this study was to show how to verify plagiarism of the paper written in Macedonian and translated in foreign language. MATERIAL AND METHODS Original article "Ethics in Medical Research Involving Human Subjects", written in Macedonian, was submitted as an assay-2 for the subject Ethics and published by Ilina Stefanovska, PhD candidate from the Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law, ...

Many researches which were published in other countries identified certain benefits and barriers to physical activity among young people. But there is no data about the subject pertaining to Macedonian adolescents. This study tries to rectify this with a study of Macedonian adolescents. The research was realized on a sample of 847 adolescents of Macedonian nationality. Current exercise habits a...

An attempt was made to retrospectively examine the medical journals published in the Republic of Macedonia since the Second World War. An analysis was made of the basic data concerning the journals, most of which are deposited in the Central Library of the Medical Faculty at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, and a few deposited in the National and the St. Clement of Ohrid Univer...

The Macedonian Society of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs, the Macedonian Society of Nephrology and the Macedonian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases and the general physicians held a one-day meeting on 11 March 2010 at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts devoted to the prevention and treatment of diabetic kidney disease. In the Republic of Maced...

RESULTS: Macedonian Medical Association was established on August 12, 1945, with science and health educational mission and program. Dr Boris Spirov was elected as the first president of the Association, one of the main initiators and facilitators of activities in health care sector, including the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje in March 1947. Over the past 70 years, the Asso...