Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever group spirochete, is an emerging tick-borne pathogen. It has been identified in ixodid ticks across the Northern Hemisphere, including the West Coast of the United States. We describe the chromosome and large linear plasmid sequence of a B. miyamotoi isolate cultured from a California field-collected Ixodes pacificus tick.

Three adult females of Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) were captured using a human bait in the surrounding dwelling area of the remaining rain forest in Itaguassu beach, island of São Francisco do Sul, northern coast of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

The place of residence of all cases of childhood cancer occurring in the Northern Region from 1968 to 1982 has been analysed by electoral wards. The wards have been ranked according to rate and Poisson probability. Both rankings show a wide geographical scatter throughout the region of areas with an apparent excess incidence of cancer. These areas are not confined to the Cumbrian coast.

Agriocnemis keralensis Peters, 1981 is reported for the first time from Maharashtra, India. Previously it was known Kerala and Goa states. In this paper we report A. Thakurwadi Bambuli wetlands Chipi Plateau, Sindhudurg District. Also, new record of Gynacantha khasiaca MacLachlan, 1896 confirmed on basis specimens collected Hence, range extension both G. in northern Western Ghats. Apart this, a...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The coastal morphotype of bottlenose dolphin is continuously distributed along the Atlantic coast south of Long Island, New York, to the Florida peninsula, including inshore waters of the bays, sounds and estuaries. Except for animals residing within the Southern North Carolina and Northern North Carolina Estuarine Systems (e.g., Waring et al. 2007), estuar...

BACKGROUND Governing immunization services in a way that achieves and maintains desired population coverage levels is complex as it involves interactions of multiple actors and contexts. In one of the Indian states, Kerala, after routine immunization had reached high coverage in the late 1990s, it started to decline in some of the districts. This paper describes an application of complex adapti...