A cluster of protracted migratory polyarthritis involving four adult family members occurred in January 2000 after a brief overnight outing in a rural area of Venezuela. Laboratory testing demonstrated Mayaro virus as the cause of the cluster. These results documented the first human cases of Mayaro virus in Venezuela.

Bruno Sansó Centro de Estadı́stica y Software Matemático, Universidad Simón Bolı́var, Caracas Venezuela and Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected], URL: www.ams.ucsc.edu/ bruno Lelys Guenni Centro de Estadı́stica y Software Matemático, Universidad Simón Bolı́var, Caracas Venezuela E-mail: [email protected], URL: ww...

Four new species of Pilea (Urticaceae) from the Andes of Venezuela are described and illustrated: Pileamatthewii sp. nov., Pileamiguelii sp. nov., Pileanicholasii sp. nov., and Pileanidiae sp. nov. The affinities of these species and their positions within the informal classifications of Pilea proposed by Weddell and Killip are discussed. Notes on other species of Pilea found in Venezuela also ...

Persons with disabilities constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in every society; their identification, assessment and care present a major challenge. In 2001-2003, Cuba conducted the first comprehensive national study of persons with disabilities in the Americas. In 2007-2010, the study was replicated in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela, at th...

A new Cotinis Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini) species from Venezuela is described and illustrated. The new species is compared with Cotinis barthelemyi (Gory & Percheron) from Colombia. The Neotropical distribution of Cotinis is expanded to Venezuela. A revised key to the species of Cotinis is provided in both English and Spanish.

Heteromys anomalus is widely distributed along the Caribbean coast of South America and had been considered the only spiny pocket mouse present in Venezuela for several decades. Recent taxonomic studies in western Venezuela, however, have documented the presence of H. australis from the Cordillera de Mérida and described H. oasicus from the Penı́nsula de Paraguaná. Here, we revise the genus Hete...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system and the most common disabling neurological disorder in young adults1,2. It is clinically characterized by a variety of neurological signs and symptoms which are attributed to white matter lesions. Those lesions are disseminated in time and space. Clinical signs may appear in sudden attacks or be insidious and prog...

Hugo Chávez se refirió a las Comunas como bases de la nueva República Bolivariana, el sostén del gobierno y medida que garantizaba cambio naturaleza Estado, capitalista anti capitalista. Sin embargo, acciones Maduro muestran una tendencia acelerada revertir frenar medidas capitalistas para reconsolidar Estado burgués asegurar supervivencia burguesía surgida. quisiera pactar sobrevivir, pero no ...

El profesor e investigador de la Universidad Los Andes–ULA (Venezuela) y Técnica Manabí-UTM (Ecuador) Rafael Cartay escribe a memoria Armando Scannone Rubén Santiago, dos pilares gastronomía las artes culinarias Venezuela.

Enrique Arciniegas, Maria G. Frid, Ivor S. Douglas, and Kurt R. Stenmark Laboratorio de Microscopia Electrónica, Servicio Autónomo Instituto de Biomedicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela; Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Developmental Lung Biology Laboratory and Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver...