Development of basketball in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the time of II World War remained quite un-researched. Even though it was truly played, with almost same intensity as before the War, for a long time people were silent and wrote very little about it. During the period (1942 – 1945) several sport clubs existed in Belgrade: Sk. 1913, Bask, Bsk, Btk, Bob, Obilić, Sask, Bankarac, Izbeglice (Refugees), Vladan Matics’ club and others who cherished basketball in newly-formed teams. Besides many games, they organised championships and did their best to promote basketball among school youth. Beside Belgrade, basketball was played in other places too: Novi Sad, Subotica, Petrovgrad, Šabac, Kragujevac, Niš, Prizren, Split, Zadar, Dubrovnik, Šibenik, Kotor and other, with different intensity. Most of the games and championships happened during 1942 and 1943. During writing historical method was used (finding of primary historical sources, their analysis, as also finding and analysis of secondary historical sources). Numerous sources made in that time were reviewed and consulted (magazines, newspapers, papers, records, reports, overwrites, etc.) in: archives, libraries, institutes, private archives and museums of sports of former Yugoslavia, as also the sources made afterword.

Hospital-acquired urinary tract infections (HAUTIs) are responsible for about 40% of all healthcare-associated infections. The aim of the study was to assess risk factors and microbiological aspects of HAUTI on six wards of a general regional hospital in Serbia.

A revision of the genus Gymnospermium (Berberidaceae) in the Balkan Peninsula is carried out. Three species are recognised. Gymnospermium maloi is described as a new species from Mt. Picari in Gjirokastra district, southern Albania. It is compared with the closely related G. scipetarum which has a different habitat and distribution in central Albania and southern Montenegro. The chromosome number and karyotype features of G. maloi are provided for the first time. The chromosome formula of 2n = 2x = 14 (1 metacentric, 1 meta-submetacentric and 5 submetacentric chromosome pairs) is unusual as 2n = 16 has been reported for other members of the genus. The nuclear DNA content (2C-value) of all three species was determined. The genome size of G. maloi is 29.44 (+/- 0.47) pg, for G. scipetarum (chromosome number still unknown) 29.55 (+/- 1.35) pg, and for G. peloponnesiacum (2n = 2x = 16) 31.93 (+/- 2.38) pg. These values are the first genome size measurements for the genus. All three species are mapped and fully illustrated. A key to the European species is also presented.

Objective: Anti-β2glycoprotein I antibodies (a-β2GPI) are a laboratory criterion for the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and were demonstrated to be involved in the pathogenesis of APS. However, they can also be detected in asymptomatic subjects. It has been suggested that a-β2GPI against Domain1 (D1) associate with thrombosis, while those recognizing Domain4/5 (D4/5) have been identified in non-thrombotic conditions. We evaluate the specificity of a- β2GPI in different clinical situations. Methods: We studied 39 one-year-old healthy children born to mothers with systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD) (15 (38.4%) were born to mothers who were a-β2GPI positive), 33 children with atopic dermatitis (AD) and 55 patients with APS (50 adults and 5 paediatrics). All subjects were IgG a-β2GPI positive. IgG a-β2GPI were performed by homemade ELISA, while IgG a-β2GPI D1 and D4/5 were tested on research ELISAs containing recombinant β2GPI domains antigens. Results: One-year-old children and AD children displayed preferential reactivity for D4/5; patients with APS recognized preferentially D1. We also found a good correlation between a-β2GPI and D4/5 in one-year-old (r=0.853) and AD children (r=0.879) and between a-β2GPI and D1 in the APS group (r=0.575). No thrombotic events were recorded in both groups of children. Conclusions: A-β2GPI found in non-thrombotic conditions (healthy children born to mothers with SAD and AD children) mostly recognize D4/5, in contrast to the prevalent specificity for D1 in the APS group. The different specificity could at least partially explain the “innocent” profile of a-β2GPI in children.