Testing the metals hypothesis in Spokane, Washington.

Disseminated Adenovirus Nephritis After Kidney Transplantation

Timothy Hatlen, Henry Mroch, Katherine Tuttle, Okechukwu Ojogho, Michele Rooney, Sara Desmond and Samer Bani-Hani Department of Medicine, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington, USA; Department of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA; Department of Nephrology, Providence Kidney Care Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA; Institute of Transl...

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for investigation of a cluster of invasive group A streptococcal illness--Spokane, Washington, 1999.

On January 25, 1999, health officials in Spokane County, Washington (1999 population: 415,000), were notified of a fatal case of necrotizing fasciitis (NF) caused by community-acquired invasive group A streptococcus (GAS) infection. Although invasive GAS infection is not a reportable disease in Washington, Spokane health officials requested reports of additional invasive GAS cases from local ho...

The spokane flood controversy and the martian outflow channels.

In a series of papers published between 1923 and 1932, J Harlen Bretz described an enormous plexus of proglacial stream channels eroded into the loess and basalt of the Columbia Plateau, eastern Washington. He argued that this region which he called the Channeled Scabland, was the product of a cataclysmic flood, which he called the Spokane flood. Considering the nature and vehemence of the oppo...

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Spokane County, Washington and Kootenai County, Idaho

Cytokines and Chemokines: Disease Models, Mechanisms, and Therapies

1 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University College of Pharmacy, 412 E. Spokane Falls Boulevard, Spokane, WA 99204, USA 2Department of Medicine/Rheumatology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA 3Veteran’s Administration, Ann Arbor, MI and Department of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 4Department of D...