G Gault1, F X Weill2, P Mariani-Kurkdjian3, N Jourdan-da Silva4, L King4, B Aldabe1, M Charron1, N Ong1, C Castor1, M Macé2, E Bingen3, H Noël4, V Vaillant4, A Bone ([email protected])4,5, B Vendrely6, Y Delmas6, C Combe6, R Bercion7, E d’Andigné7, M Desjardin7, H de Valk4, P Rolland1 1. Cellule interrégionale d’épidémiologie (CIRE) Aquitaine, France 2. Institut Pasteur, Centre National de R...

BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a neglected zoonosis affecting mainly tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, particularly South America and the Caribbean. As in many other countries, under-reporting of cases was suspected in the French West Indies because of inadequate access to diagnostic tests for the general population. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In order to estimate the real incidenc...

Ben Chung-Lap Chan, Clara Bik-San Lau, Claude Jolivalt, Sau-Lai Lui, Carine GanemElbaz, Jean-Marc Paris, Marc Litaudon, Kwok-Pui Fung, Ping-Chung Leung and Margaret Ip * Institute of Chinese Medicine; Department of Microbiology; School of Biomedical Sciences; State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry & Plant Resources in West China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hon...

1 G osyst mes – UMR 8217 CNRS, Universit de Lille 1, UFR Sciences de la Terre (SN5), Avenue Paul Langevin, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq cedex, France. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Pal ontologisches Institut und Museum, Universit t Z rich, Karl Schmid Strasse 4, 8006 Z rich, Switzerland 3 UMR CNRS 6282 Biog osciences, Universit de Bourgogne, 6 Boulevard Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France 4 1134 J...

1Head Clinical Unit: Surgery, New Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa 2Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 3Private Practice, Somerset West, South Africa 4Private Practice, Bellville, South Africa 5Private Practice, George and Consultant Surgeon George Provincial Hospital, South Africa 6Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Afri...

Crop rows oriented at a right angle to sunlight direction (i.e., east–west within the winter cropping system in Western Australia) may suppress weed growth through greater shading of weeds in the interrow spaces. This was investigated in the districts of Merredin and Beverley, Western Australian (latitudes of 31u and 32uS) from 2002 to 2005 (four trials). Winter grain crops (wheat, barley, cano...

Background: The consumption of low quality foods is common in low socioeconomic areas; and according to epidemiological studies, the density of nutrients often proves the quality of diet. This study aimed to compare the density of macronutrients and micronutrients in various parts of Tehran.   Methods: This was a cross-sectional study performed from September to December 2007 in all the...

This paper explores the utility of an ensemble decision-tree method called random forest, in comparison with the classic classification and regression trees (CART) algorithm, for forecasting ground-level ozone pollution in the Sydney metropolitan region. Statistical forecasting models are developed to provide daily ozone forecasts in November-March for three subregions, i.e., Sydney east, Sydne...

A new species of mole, Talpa aquitania Nicolas, Martínez-Vargas & Hugot, 2017, was recently described from France. Based on the genetic identification 270 individuals it hypothesized that T. and europaea Linnaeus, 1758 are allopatric, being distributed opposite sides Loire River, with exception a small area sympatry in eastern Pyrénées mountains. The aim present study is to get better understan...