British Columbia Muhammad G. Morshed, PhD; Min-Kuang Lee, MS; Stephanie Man, BS; Keerthi Fernando, MSc; Quantine Wong, BS; Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, FRCPC; David M. Patrick, MD, MHSc, FRCPC; Sunny Mak, MSc; Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC; British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Briti...

a Physics Department, Bose Institute, 93/1, A.P.C. Road, Calcutta 700 009, INDIA b Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF, Bidhannagar, Calcutta 700 064, INDIA c Theory Group, TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 2A3, CANADA d Nuclear Theory Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg. 510A, Upton, Long Island, New York 11973-5000, USA e Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidha...

Bo Lan,* Linhong Deng,* Graham M. Donovan, Leslie Y. M. Chin, Harley T. Syyong, Lu Wang, Jenny Zhang, Christopher D. Pascoe, Brandon A. Norris, Jeffrey C.-Y. Liu, Nicholas E. Swyngedouw, Saleha M. Banaem, Peter D. Paré, and Chun Y. Seow Bioengineering College, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China; Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Department of Medicine...

1 Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver BC, Canada V5Z 1L3 2 Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Vancouver BC, Canada V5Z 4H4 3 Genome Stability Laboratory, CHU de Québec Research Center, HDQ Pavilion, Oncology Axis, 9 McMahon, Québec City, QC G1R 2J6, Canada 4 Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology; Laval University Cancer Research Center, Q...

Robarts Research Institute and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Adult Metabolic Disease Clinic, Department of Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

During 1999, the eastern portion of Vancouver Island, British Columbia began experiencing an outbreak of a rare cryptococcal disease previously known to exist only in tropical and sub-tropical regions. It is thought that this outbreak on Vancouver Island is the world’s largest outbreak of cryptococcosis ever identified. It is not yet understood how this pathogen, widely regarded as a “tropical”...

M. Krausz1,2,4; M. Vogel3; M. Nikoo1 1Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2School of Public and Population Health, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3Division of Substance Use Disorders, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel; 4Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Uni...

1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, Iowa City; 2Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC; 3Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City; 4Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City; 5Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; and 6Division of He...

From the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute — both in Vancouver, Canada; and the Department of Dermatology, New York University, New York. Address reprint requests to Dr. Shapiro at the Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, 835 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E8, Canada.

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Robert Brandenberger, and Anupam Mazumdar Theory Group, TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A3 Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2J 2W9 Physics Department, McGill University, 3600 University Road, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8 (Received 28 July 2004; pu...