A 25-year-old Nepali man presented with a 20-day history of fever associated with a lower backache. Physical examination found tenderness over the lower lumbar vertebrae. Magnetic resonance imaging following intravenous contrast injection showed enhancement of the L4 and L5 vertebrae, particularly pronounced around the intervening disc, and areas of endplate erosion. Extra-vertebral enhancement...

The genus Eumops is the most diverse genera of molossid bats in the Neotropics. In Peru this genus is widely distributed and represented by nine species: E. auripendulus, E. delticus, E. hansae, E. maurus, E. nanus, E. patagonicus, E. perotis, E. trumbulli, and E. wilsoni. After several years of mammalian diversity surveys in the coastal desert and western slopes of southwestern Peru, a specime...

Kerodon acrobata is a caviidae rodent endemic from Brazilian Cerrado. It was described only in 1997 and the data about it is very scarce. The aim of this work was to characterize the karyotype of K. acrobata. Giemsa staining, nucleolar organizer region (NOR) banding, C-positive heterochromatin banding and DAPI fluorescence were used in N metaphases of a specimen collected in Asa Branca Farm, in...

An illustrated identification key is provided to 17 species of Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripinae from Hawaii that are members of the Tribe Haplothripini, together with a further species that is similar in general appearance to members of that Tribe. Of these 18 species, 13 are considered introduced from other parts of the world, but five appear to be endemics. Known only from Hawaii, Haplothrips fi...

eventeen specimens of the rare Yucatan vesper mouse, Otonyctomys hatti, are now known from Belize, Guatemala, and the Mexican states of Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatan. We herein report a second specimen of O.hatti, from Belize, extending the known geographic range of the species 95 km te the southeast in the country. This is the first location at which O. hatti has been taken sympatrically...

The sudden appearance of chytridiomycosis, the cause of amphibian deaths and population declines in several continents, suggests that its etiologic agent, the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, was introduced into the affected regions. However, the origin of this virulent pathogen is unknown. A survey was conducted of 697 archived specimens of 3 species of Xenopus collected from ...

Chest wall abscess is a rare manifestation of childhood tuberculosis. We report a case of a tuberculous chest wall abscess in a 4-year-old healthy girl who had received Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination at birth. She developed a localized anterior chest wall mass, which was initially mistaken for enchondroma on the chest radiograph. Pathologic examination of the biopsy specimen reveale...

background: endemic relapsing fever remains under diagnosed in our area according to a low index of suspicion among clinicians, as well as its difficult diagnosis. the goal of this study was to present the epidemiological aspects of the disease in western iran. methods: in this analytical-descriptive cross-sectional study, the epidemiological and clinical aspects of relapsing fever were investi...

background & aim: secondary metabolites with bioactive and functional properties in essence of aromatic plants can be useful for improvement of quality and persistence of food as natural preservative.  the aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial of essential oils of some of the medicinal plants collected from chaharmahal va bakhtiari province, iran. experimental: the e...