Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2005 1151 species. However, the new spirochete is distinct from all other known Borrelia spp. with an available 16S rDNA sequence in the GenBank database. Its partial 16S rDNA sequence differed by 3.3% to 4.2% from 9 LB group species and 2.4% to 3.4% from 15 relapsing fever group species. For comparison, intragroup sequence d...

Laboratory methods are used to evaluate factors that affect the success of price-fixing conspiracies. In standard posted-offer markets with no discounts, sellers are able to approach joint-profit-maximizing prices when they are allowed to discuss their decisions in advance. But such discussions are not effective when sellers are allowed to offer secret discounts from their posted prices; transa...

Laboratories may use different analytical methods that may not be harmonized, possibly with different units of reporting. We should not assume that the differing numbers can be directly compared especially if the transfer of results from the laboratory to the report recipient does not highlight differences in units of reporting or in assay methods in use. To Corresponding author: Jillian R. Tat...

With the advent of modern medical technology, the availability of hematological and serum biochemical data to the veterinary practitioner has become commonplace. One unfortunate side effect of this convenience is that some clinicians might tend to focus their attention on one or two abnormal laboratory abnormalities and forget to interpret the test results within the entire clinical context of ...

We propose new visualization techniques for the user behaviors when using search engine results pages. Our visualization method provides an overview of a user’s actual visual behavior using the logs for eye-movement data and browser link-clicking. We also report on the eye-movement data collected from user experiments.