Two new species of the genus Craspedophorus Hope, 1838 from the Philippine Islands namely, C.luzonensis sp. nov. and C. kirschenhoferi sp. nov. are described and their affinities are discussed, illustrated and compared with related taxa. Craspedophorus luzonensis sp. nov., from Luzon, belongs to the "obscurus species group, whereas C. kirschenhoferi sp. nov., from Mindanao, stands isolated in t...

INTRODUCTION The seasonality of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is well known, and many analyses have been conducted in temperate countries; however, this is still not well understood in tropical countries. Previous studies suggest that climate factors are involved in the seasonality of these viruses. However, the extent of the effect of each climate variable is yet to be define...

The problems faced by the Philippine Commonwealth government at the end of the Second World War included not only those resulting from actual hostilities, but many problems arising from the failure of the Public Health program before the war broke out. In 1941 this program had deteriorated badly and equipment was already obsolete. As a consequence, the danger of large-scale epidemics was great ...

22 VOL. 47 NO. 3 2013 ACTA MEDICA PHILIPPINA _______________ Corresponding author: Mark Anthony S. Sandoval, MD Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Medical Research Laboratory Philippine General Hospital Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila 1000 Philippines Telephone: 0916-5921818 E-mail: [email protected] Effect of Malunggay (Moringa oleifera) Capsules on Lipid and Glucose Le...

Peter Carlo M Nierras, Aida P Maranian, Ming-Shien Wen, Chung-Chuan Chou Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan, China Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Southern Philippines Medical Center, Davao City, Philippines Chang Gung Universit...

Aim To utilize comprehensive geographical sampling and a new, multilocus dataset to re-examine the biogeography of spotted stream frogs (Hylarana signata complex) throughout Southeast Asia. To compare patterns of diversification among stream frog populations on land-bridge islands and oceanic islands and to re-evaluate a previous ‘dual-invasion’ hypothesis for the origins of endemic Philippine ...

Pseudomonas pachastrellae strain CCUG 46540T (KMM 330T) was isolated from a deep-sea sponge specimen collected in the Philippine Sea at a depth of 750 m. The draft genome has an estimated size of 4.0 Mb, exhibits a G+C content of 61.2 mol%, and is predicted to encode 3,592 proteins, including pathways for the degradation of aromatic compounds.

In the course of preparing a key to the Philippine tiger beetle genera (Pangantihon & Zettel, in prep.) it became necessary to examine the holotype of Cicindela philippinensis Mandl, 1956, the only specimen from the Philippines that has been tentatively assigned to the genus Myriochila Motschulsky, 1857.

The concept of vowel grade by which morphological features in some IndoEuropean languages are signaled by change in the quality of the vowel of a given form has long been recognized. More recently, the term has also been applied to the variation in vowels that occur in some case-marking prepositional forms in Austronesian languages. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate some of the proces...