In Argentina there are two tephritid fruit fly species of major economic and quarantine importance: the exotic Ceratitis capitata that originated from Southeast Africa and the native Anastrepha fraterculus. In recent years, the use of fruit fly parasitoids as biocontrol agents has received renewed attention. This increasing interest has recently led to the establishment of a program for the mas...

INTRODUCTION Latin America has dramatically increased the number of articles Publisher from 1995 to 2002, but the individual contribution of each country appears to be very unequal. OBJECTIVES To analyze the production of articles on Cardiology research published in Latin American countries in the past years in international journals. METHODS A bibliography search was carried out throughout...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonize land plants in every ecosystem, even extreme conditions such as saline soils. In the present work we report for the first time the mycorrhizal status and the vertical fungal distribution of AMF spores present in the rhizospheric soil samples of four species of Chenopodiaceae (Allenrolfea patagonica, Atriplex argentina, Heterostachys ritteriana and Sua...

Mathews Journal of HIV/AIDS Lung Cancer in HIV-Seropositive Patients. Marcelo Corti1 1Division of HIV/AIDS Disease, FJ. Muñiz Infectious Diseases Hospital and School of Medicine, Buenos Aires University, Argentina Corresponding Author: Marcelo Corti, Department of HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases, FJ. Muñiz Hospital, Puán 381 2° floor, Postal code C1406, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tel: +54 114 432 3...

Nicolás G. Tognalli, Pablo Scodeller, Victoria Flexer, Rafael Szamocki, Alejandra Ricci, Ernesto J. Calvo, and Alejandro Fainstein1,† Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Enerǵıa Atómica, 8400 S. C. de Bariloche, Rı́o Negro, Argentina and INQUIMAE, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón 2, Ciudad UniVersitaria, 1428 Buenos...

Laboratorio de Química Ambiental, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (CCTCONICET Mendoza). Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina. Toxicological Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (CCT-CONICET Mendoza). Instituto Antá...

Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis was isolated from two out of seventy samples (2.86 %) of pasteurized and ultra-pasteurized milk. The isolates were positives to IS900 PCR and showed a C17 RFLP pattern, the most prevalent in Argentina. The present study is the first report of Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis culture from pasteurized milk in Argentina.

Maria Laura Alzua, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (Principal Investigator) Amy Janel Pickering, Stanford University, USA Habiba Djebbari, Aix-Marseille University, France Carolina Lopez, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Juan Camilo Cardenas, University of the Andes, Colombia Maria Adelaida Lopera, Université Laval, Canada Nicolas Osbert, UNICEF Massa Coul...

METHOD FOR SOLVING LEAST-SQUARES PROBLEMS IN IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION H. D. Scolnik1 N. Echebest2 M.T. Guardarucci2 1 Departamento de Computación, Fac. de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina( [email protected]) 2 Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina ([email protected])

The genus Balera Young is reported for first time to Argentina and a new species is described, Balera floripara sp. n. Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of the new species and a key to males of known species are provided. Habralebra amoena is also recorded for the first time from Argentina.