The transmission of the transfusion-associated Chagas disease is an important mechanism of its dissemination in several Latin American countries. The transmission risk depends on five factors: prevalence of infection in blood donors, degree of serological coverage, sensibility of used tests, safety of obtained results and infection risk. The Southern Cone Iniciative set off by the Pan-American ...

High mortality among laboratory cultured Iberian toothcarp Aphanius iberus occurred in February 1997 in Valencia (Spain). The main signs of the disease were external haemorrhage and tail rot. Bacteria isolated from internal organs of infected fish were biochemically homogeneous and identified as Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The bacteria were haemolytic against erythrocytes from eel Anguilla anguill...

1 University of Dubrovnik, Department of aquaculture, Ćira Carića 4, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Agios Kosmas, Hellinikon, 16604 Athens, Greece 3 Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, P. O. Box 500, 21 000 Split, Croatia 4University of Dubrovnik, Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, Kneza Damjana Jude 12, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia *Corresponding aut...

On the cover : Steers grazing strips of rhizoma peanut ( Arachis glabrata Benth) and bahiagrass Paspalum notatum Flüggé) at North Florida Research Education Center, Marianna, FL, USA. See article, “Nutrient excretion from cattle nitrogen‐fertilized grass or grass‐legume pastures”, by Garcia et al. in this issue Agronomy Journal . Photo Credit: Liza Garcia. image

Copyright: © 2017 Johannesson L, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Primary Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas of the Uterus and Uterine Cervix Liza Johannesson1, Jennifer Mason1, John Miller1, Selva-...

Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity Liza R. Moscovice *, Anthony Di Fiore , Catherine Crockford , Dawn M. Kitchen , Roman Wittig , Robert M. Seyfarth , Dorothy L. Cheney f Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, NY, U.S.A. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A. c School of Psycholog...

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In this study, we determined the technical characteristics and target species of some fishing gears, used in lagoon fisheries along Aegean Sea. The samplings were carried out five lagoons (Enez, Homa, Karina, Akköy Güllük) between 2014 2016. Technical plans gears drawn by MS-Visio programme with scale for gillnets, but no scales longlines. A total 10 type set nets which 8 trammel 2 3 longlines ...

background: this study purposed to assess the health risks of heavy metals including nickel (ni), chromium (cr), mercury (hg), and lead (pb) in three widely-consumed fish from the coast of bandar abbas (persian gulf) and to determine the maximum amounts allowed for consumption according to the degree of contamination. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in the summer and fall of 2...