The adult blood-sucking females of a number of species of Culicoides are pests in many parts of the world. The irritation and annoyance caused by their attacks on man and his animals are often so great that they constitute a serious problem. The chief significance, however, of Culicoides spp. is that they may act as vectors of filarial and virus diseases to man and his animals (see Hill, 1947)....

Because of inherent and inseparable variables, studies of the effect of smoking on gastric secretion and motility have proved inconclusive. The only firm conclusions to be drawn from the work reviewed are that the prognosis of both gastric and duodenal ulcers is made worse by regular smoking and that the healing and response of gastric ulcers to medical treatment is impaired. The mechanisms thr...

We introduced a patient with fetal EBV-triggered who finally developed multidrug-resistant septicemia, perianal abscess, massive alimentary tract bleeding due to gastrointestinal vascular malformation, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. His EB virus maintained chronically active under multiple drug treatments. Interestingly, continuous infection probable idiopathic malformation might be t...