Phylogenetic relationships were examined for 198 Rift Valley fever virus isolates and 5 derived strains obtained from various sources in Saudi Arabia and 16 countries in Africa during a 67-year period (1944-2010). A maximum-likelihood tree prepared with sequence data for a 490-nt section of the Gn glycoprotein gene showed that 95 unique sequences sorted into 15 lineages. A 2010 isolate from a p...

Chikungunya virus, an arthritogenic alpha virus, was first described in Tanzania in a febrile female [1]. The disease is endemic in many African countries as well as in South-East Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam, Myanmar, Cameroon, Philippines and Malaysia) [2]. From 2005–06 outbreaks were also reported in the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, La Reunion, Mauritius and S...

Paul M. Haney,1 Hyun-Woo Lee,2 Kyung-Jin Lee,1,3,4,5 Aurélien Manchon,6 and M. D. Stiles1 1Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6202, USA 2PCTP and Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Kyungbuk 790-784, Korea 3Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Korea University, Seoul ...

Correction: Gao, W., et al. Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of 5-Chloromethyl-furfural (CMF) from Carbohydrates in Mild Biphasic Systems. Molecules 2013, 18, 7675-7685 Wenhua Gao , Yiqun Li , Zhouyang Xiang , Kefu Chen , Rendang Yang 2 and Dimitris S. Argyropoulos * 1 Departments of Chemistry and Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA 2 State Key Laboratory Pul...

Address: 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 2Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 3Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 4Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 5Departments of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bl...

Since the discovery of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in late 2012, more than 1,400 people have received a laboratory diagnosis of MERS and over 450 people have died. Most of the cases have been documented on the Arabian Peninsula; however, sporadic cases have also been reported in Europe and Asia in travelers returning from the Middle East. Except in South Korea, the i...