1 State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; 2 Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Civil Affairs & Ministry of Education, Beijing 100875, China; 3 Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment Research for Temperate East Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; 4 Depart...

Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, 2 Research Group for Marine Geochemistry (ICBM-MPI Bridging Group), Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, A...

Changes in the availability of skilled laboratory personnel, new technologies, and the financial environment will all influence the practice of diagnostic microbiology in the near and more distant future. Because of the special expertise needed for the accurate identification of anaerobic bacteria, the ability to diagnose anaerobic infections may decline as a consequence of these changes. Physi...

Author details Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya. Department of Environment and Health Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya. Centre for Virus Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Microbiology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. Bomu Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya. Department of Biological Scie...

Cryptococcosis is an acute, sub-acute or chronic fungal disease caused by an encapsulated basidiomycetous yeast belonging to the genus Cryptococcus (Jagdish Chander). It is among the most prevalent lifethreatening mycoses and has a worldwide distribution (Meyer et al., 2003). Among the many species of the genus “Cryptococcus” that are prevalent ubiquitously in environment, C. neoformans and C. ...

Microbiology is a specialized area of biology dealing with organisms too small to be seen without sufficient magnification. Microbiologists study bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and prions and their interactions with humans, animals, plants, and the environment. While viruses and prions are not living organisms like bacteria, fungi, and parasites, they are studied by microbiologists; there...

One strength for all potential readers of the book is that patient positioning and the requirements for a technically adequate study are presented, as well as inherent limitations to certain techniques (e.g., supine portable chest x-rays as opposed to upright, posterior to anterior , films). All physicians would do well to read and understand these sections when requesting, interpreting, or sug...

THIS manageable volume draws together the current information on double-contrast G.I. radiology in a very readable form. It describes and comments on the techniques necessary (and the re-orientation of the examiner) and provides beautiful and profuse illustrations of what can be achieved. Its description and illustration of normal and abnormal variants is particularly useful for those trying ou...

The interactions between virus proteins and host cells are intricate and impact diverse processes. Recent papers explored in this issue's Microbiology Select reveal unexpected mechanisms by which viruses interact with host cells to facilitate infection, promote replication of their genomes, and foster horizontal gene transfer. The Tat (transactivator of transcription) protein of the human immun...

A pathologist deals with the causes and nature of disease and contributes to diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment through knowledge gained by the laboratory application of the biologic, chemical, and physical sciences. A pathologist uses information gathered from the microscopic examination of tissue specimens, cells, and body fluids, and from clinical laboratory tests on body fluids and secreti...