Surgical Department, St. Elisabeth’s Oncology Institute and Medical Faculty of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Address for correspondence: R. Kralik, MD, PhD, Surgical Department, St. Elisabeth’s Oncology Institute and Medical Faculty of Comenius University, Heydukova 10, SK-812 50 Bratislava, Slovakia. I am sending you a few important notes to the publication in your journal titled R...

The spread of dirofilariosis, as a newly emerging zoonosis, due to global changes has been documented in several Central European countries. In Slovakia, the first autochthonous case of dirofilariosis was recorded in dogs in 2005. The first case of human subcutaneous dirofilariosis caused by Dirofilaria repens was diagnosed in a 60- year-old patient from an area of western Slovakia. We report a...

Lucia Kenderešová1,2,†, Andrea Staňová1,2,†, Ján Pavlovkin1, Eva Ďurišová1,2, Miriam Nadubinská1, Milada Čiamporová1 and Miroslav Ovečka1,3,* Institute of Botany SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 23 Bratislava, Slovakia, Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia and Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and A...

Tancik J., Seljak G. (2017): Occurrence of Scaphoideus titanus Ball and some other Auchenorrhyncha in the vineyards of western Slovakia. Plant Protect. Sci., 53: 95–100. A study of Auchenorrhyncha was carried out in 2014 and 2015 in 7 vineyard plots with different varieties and pest management strategies in the Nitra wine region and Lesser Carpathian wine region in western Slovakia. The aim of ...

Does egg colouration signal female and egg quality in reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)? J. Krištofík a , A. Darolová a , M. Griggio b , J. Majtán a c , M. Okuliarová d , M. Zeman d , L. Zídková e & H. Hoi b a Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 06, Bratislava, Slovakia b Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, Department of Integrative Biology and Evoluti...

The aim of study was evaluation of the quality of feeds for dairy cattle on the content of copper and zinc from two agro-ecological zones (western Slovakia and eastern Slovakia). Feed samples-corn silage (n=70), lucerne silage (n=32), grass silage (n=25), and total mixed ration for dairy cows-TMR (n=66) came from livestock farms. The Cu and Zn contents were assessed in samples using atomic abso...

BACKGROUND The aim of paper is to analyse the development of standardised mortality rates for ischemic heart diseases in relation to the income inequality in the regions of Slovakia. This paper assesses different types of income indicators, such as mean equivalised net income per household, Gini coefficient, unemployment rate, at risk of poverty threshold (60 % of national median), S80/S20 and ...

Chronic Superficial Keratitis (CSK) is an autoimmune mediated inflammation of the cornea, that is usually bilateral but often with nonsymmetrical manifestation. The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence and appearance of clinical symptoms of CSK in German Shepherd dogs in Poland and Slovakia. CSK was diagnosed in 308 German Shepherds for a period of 11 years (from 1999 to 2010). The...

We review the parasitic mites of the superfamily Dermanyssoidea found in the nests of Slovakian domestic and wild birds (and a few mammals), compiled from new data and literature sources. Three mite genera are included, namely Dermanyssus Dugès (Dermanyssidae), Ornithonyssus Sambon and Pellonyssus Clark & Yunker (Macronyssidae), in which we recognised nine reliably documented species. Pellonyss...