In memoriam Professor Jean-Antoine Rioux (1925-2017)

Professor Alain Chabaud (13 March 1923–11 March 2013)

Jean-Antoine Rioux*, Marie-Claude Durette-Desset, Jean-Louis Albaret, Christiane Bayssade-Dufour, Jimmy Cassone, Irène Landau, Annie Petter, and Roselyne Tchéprakoff 1 Honorary Professor of Parasitology (Montpellier), Former President of the French Society of Parasitology, Faculté de Médecine, Université Montpellier 1, 1 rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France 2 Ex-members of ‘‘La...

In Memoriam-Professor Ajit K.Padhy

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In Memoriam, Melvin M. Grumbach (1925–2016)

MelvinM. Grumbach, MD, widely regarded as the world’s foremost pediatric endocrinologist, died October 4, 2016, at the age of 90 (Fig. 1). Beloved by all and affectionately known as Mel, he was the Edward B. Shaw Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, former Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics (1966–1986) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a former President of The Endoc...

Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) chabaudi and Phlebotomus riouxi: closely related species or synonyms?

Phlebotomus riouxi Depaquit, Killick-Kendrick & Léger 1998 was described as a species closely related to Phlebotomus chabaudi Croset, Abonnenc & Rioux 1970, differing mainly by the size and number of setae of the coxite basal lobe. Molecular studies carried out on several populations from Algeria and Tunisia and based on mitochondrial genes cytochrome b (Cytb) and cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sup...

Pregnancy Rate after First Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection-In Vitro Fertilisation Cycle in Patients with Endometriomawith or without Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis