Serum samples collected from 167 equines of 12 districts in Albania were tested for West Nile virus-specific antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and virus neutralization assay, using WNV lineage 1 and 2. In addition, 95 bird serum samples from Albania and 29 horse samples from Kosovo were tested in ELISA. An overall seroprevalence rate of 22% was found in horses from Albania, wherea...

Aim: The European region is facing major health challenges attributable to noncommunicable diseases. Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of premature mortality in Europe. This paper aims to indicate how Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) attributable to tobacco smoking, alcohol use and diet have changed over the past 20 years in Albania and Greece. Moreover, the paper discusses ...

AIM Universal neonatal hearing screening Project started in Albania for the first time in January 2009. It was made possible by the support of Magis, an Italian NGO, as a grant of Italian government to the Albanian health system. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of PCHI in Albania. METHODS Universal neonatal hearing screening in Albania started on January 2009 until December...

1. ALBANIA The Republic of Albania, located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula; is bounded in the northwest and north by Serbia and Montenegro, in the east by FYROM, in the southeast and south by Greece, and in the west by the Adriatic Sea. Albania is divided into 26 districts. Albania is predominantly mountainous. Lowlands, which comprise less than one-quarter of the land area, are li...

1 DDS PhD Departament of Periodotology, Albanian University and private practice, Tirana, Albania. 2 Albanian Univerity, private practise, Tirana, Albania. 3 Post-gratuated student, Nostra Signora del Buon Consiglio, Tirana, Albania *Corresponding Author’s E-mail: [email protected] Trauma of maxillary teeth in the anterior area is a common accident. In most cases, the result is a root or cr...

In the past two decades Albania and the former Yugoslavia have become associated with some of Europe’s most dramatic emigration movements. During the four decades of the communist regime, the Republic of Albania was a blind spot in the imagination of Europe and the world. It was brought back into the collective consciousness in 1991 when media all over the world showed dramatic pictures of impo...

Twelve taxa are enumerated as new and three taxa confirmed for the flora of Albania. They were collected between 2007 and 2012 in the Prespa National Park of Albania which is part of the Prespa International Park, a biological protected area at the borders with F.Y.R. Macedonia and Greece. Four taxa, viz., Centaureagalicicae, Festucagalicicae, Laserpitiumochridanum and Micromeriacristatasubsp.k...

During the present study three type 1 poliovirus strains isolated in Greece during the 1996 poliomyelitis outbreak in Albania were retrospectively investigated and determination of their relationship with other epidemic strains isolated in Albania or elsewhere during previous epidemics was attempted. SimPlot analysis revealed that the three Greek strains are the result of a recombination event ...

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common, relapsing, inflammatory skin disease that primarily affects young children, in which allergic sensitization is present in only a part of patients. Patients with AD may develop allergic rhinitis and asthma at certain ages. In Albania, prior to the ISAAC Phases survey, very little was known about the prevalence of allergic disorders. To give a recent...

In Albanian, the schwa as a phoneme is restricted to the Tosk variety, whereas it is described as a back, rounded vowel in the Gheg variety. The first two formants of schwa-vowels of both Tosk and Gheg speakers (within and outside the Republic of Albania) have been investigated. No differences could be found within the borders of the Republic of Albania, whereas speakers outside the borders dis...