1Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, U.S.A. 25th Medical Detachment, 18th Medical Command, U.S. Army, Unit 15247, APO AP 96205-5247 3Force Health Protection, 18th Medical Command, U.S. Army, Unit 15281, APO AP 96205-5247 4Department of Entomology, U.S. Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute ...

Failure is the word that best describes human effort to master schistosomiasis. In 1000 B.C. schistosomes infected man, proof being recovery of calcified ova from dated Egyptian mummies. Earlier by a thousand years, vesical schistosomiasis was prevalent, to judge from references to hematuria by the local medical profession. By A.D. 1969 the world incidence of schistosomiasis was at least 150 mi...

TOMOHIDE YASUNAGA1, ZAYAR SOE2, SHINE SHANE NAING2 & ANDRZEJ WOLSKI3 1Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, c/o JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Myanmar Office, #701 Sakura Tower No. 339, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. E-mail: [email protected] 2Fluit Fly Laboratory, Plant Protection Division (PPD), ...

National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway, e-mail: [email protected]; Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Benátská 2, CZ-128 00 Prague, Czech Republic, e-mail: [email protected]; Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic; Department of...

1Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Division of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 209107500, U.S.A. 2U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, North, Attn.: MCHB AN ES, 4411 Llewellyn St., Ft. Meade, MD 20755-5225, U.S.A. 3Medical Zoology Branch, Academy of Health Sciences, Attn.: MCCS-HPM, U.S. AMEDD Center & School, 3151 Scott Road Ste 04...