Leafhopper species Macropsidius duuschulus Dlabola and M. niger Matsumura are recorded for the first time from China. Macropsidius fukangensis (Li et Xu) comb. nov. (from Macropsis) is proposed. A new species, Pediopsis bannaensis sp. nov., is described and illustrated from China and Thailand.

General characteristics of Coloana Dworakowska and a key to known species of the genus are provided. Six new species, Coloana accrescens, C. hainanensis, C. latiprocessa, C. orthoprocessa, C. recta and C. sinuata spp. nov. from China and Thailand are described and illustrated. C. cinerea Dworakowska is newly recorded from China.

To the Editor: Despite improved public health, serious infections with nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica remain a major clinical and public health concern in Thailand and worldwide (1,2). Life-threatening Salmonella infections resistant to fluoroquinolones, extended-spectrum cephalosporins, or both, have been increasingly reported (3). Use of antimicrobial drugs for disease prevention and growth...

Twenty-eight isolates of Pythium insidiosum and P. destruens from Asia, Australia and the Americas were compared on the basis of restriction fragment-length polymorphisms of the amplified ribosomal intergenic spacer. Comparison of band profiles yielded three distinct clusters and an isolate that did not fall into any of the clusters. Cluster I consisted of 16 isolates, all from the Americas (Co...

Cancer mortality risk due to intake of selenium contaminated rice in Iran and Qatar: Implication for an island country on food importation Beuy Joob, Viroj Wiwanitkit Sanitation 1 Medical Academic Center, Bangkok 10160, Thailand Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia Joseph Ayobabalola University, Ikeji Arakeji, Nigeria Surin Rajabhat Univer...

Mrigesh Bhatia London School of Economics, London Viroj Tangcharoensathien International Health Policy Programme, Thailand Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Aparnaa Somanathan Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Phusit Prakongsai International Health Policy Programme, Thailand Tharanga Fernando Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Supon Limwatananon International ...

BACKGROUND Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major cause of adult mortality in Asia. Appropriate empirical treatment depends on knowledge of the pathogens commonly responsible. However, assessing the aetiological significance of identified organisms is often difficult, particularly with sputum isolates that might represent contamination with oropharyngeal flora. METHODS A systematic rev...

Contributing Authors Xiongwen Chen (China), Jingyun Fang (China), Qiong Gao (China), T. Jarupongsakul (Thailand), R. Khosa (India), A. Lelakin (Russia), N. Mimura (Japan), M.Q. Mirza (Bangladesh), S. Mizina (Kazakhstan), M. Nakagawa (Japan), M. Nakayama (Japan), Jian Ni (China), A. Novoplansky (Israel), W.T. Piver (USA), E. Rankova (Russia), D. Saltz (Israel), K.P. Sharma (Nepal), M.L. Shrestha...

To elucidate the way to prevent lifestyle-related diseases, such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension, in Asian countries, a comparative study between Mongoloids was conducted at Palau, in Oceania, the Republic of China, Thailand, Mongolia and Japan, from 1998 to October 2002. The survey comprised a social survey, nutrition survey, physical and medical examinations, biomedical analyses, urinal...

H. Hasegawa, R. Tada, X. Jiang, Y. Suganuma, S. Imsamut, P. Charusiri, N. Ichinnorov, and Y. Khand Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Chengdu Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chengdu, China National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan Department of Mineral Resources, Bureau of Geological Survey, Bangkok, Thailand Department of Geolo...