Rimek and colleagues (1) recently published an account of the first case of meningitis caused by Cryptococcus adeliensis in a German patient with acute myeloid leukemia. C. adeliensis was previously described as a new cryptococcal species isolated from algae in Antarctica (2). In the context of an excursion aimed at getting some information about the occurrence of different genotypes of C. neof...

The goal is to monitor human methorchiasis and carnivores as an epidemic sanitary hygienic threat the population of southern subject Russian Federation.When analyzing materials on incidence methorchosis in dogs Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, it turned out that 12 districts rate varied from 5.6 15.9%. gradation abundance index trematode Metorchis albidus eggs dog feces ranged 2.9t0.5 7.070.8 ind. ...

Freeze-tolerant organisms survive internal ice formation; however, the adaptations to repeated freeze-thaw cycles are often not well investigated. Here we report how three geographically different populations of Enchytraeus albidus (Germany, Iceland and Svalbard) respond to three temperature treatments - constant thawed (0°C), constant freezing (-5°C) and fluctuating temperature (0 to -5°C) - o...