Five new species of Pireneitega species from Tajikistan are described: Pireneitega zonsteinisp. n. (♂♀), Pireneitega muratovisp. n. (♀), Pireneitega tyuraisp. n. (♀), Pireneitega ramitensissp. n. (♀) and Pireneitega kovblyukisp. n. (♂). Pireneitega major (Kroneberg, 1875) is redescribed for the first time based on the lectotype designated here. DNA barcodes for the five new species are document...

Two new species belonging to the consobrina-group of the subgenus Micruria Reitter, 1875 (genus Epuraea Erichson, 1843), Epuraea (Micruria) lanuginosasp. n. and Epuraea (Micruria) pulliginissp. n., found in Sichuan Province, China, are described. Pictures and details of structures important for diagnostics of the new species, including external characters and genitalia are given.

Six new species of the genus Taridius Chaudoir, 1875 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) are described from Vietnam: Taridius ornatussp. n., Taridius piceussp. n., Taridius fasciatussp. n., Taridius abdominalissp. n., Taridius coriaceussp. n., and Taridius disjunctussp. n.. The generic characters are redescribed, based on fresh material, with a key provided to all congeners.

BACKGROUND Surveillance endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs) are used for the early diagnosis of acute cardiac allograft rejection. Protocols became standardized in an earlier era and their utility with contemporary immunosuppression has not been investigated. METHODS We studied 258 patients after orthotopic heart transplantation comparing 135 patients immunosuppressed by mycophenolate mofetil (MMF...

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1875-9637/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2013.04.005 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (R.I. Dorn), [email protected] (D.H. Krinsley), [email protected] (K.A. Langworthy), [email protected] (J. Ditto), [email protected] (T.J. Thompson). Ronald I. Dorn a,⇑, David H. Krinsley , Kurt A. Langworthy , Jef...

Abbreviations: ACC, American College of Cardiology; AHA, American Heart Association; ESC, European Society of Cardiology; ICH, Intracranial haemorrhage; IE, Infective endocarditis. ∗ Corresponding author at: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henri-Mondor University Hospital, 51, avenue de Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94100 Créteil, France. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Ternacle)...

The paper presents a description of the hitherto unknown larva of Drusus nigrescens Meyer-Dür, 1875. Information on the morphological and genetic identification of this species is given, and the most important diagnostic features are illustrated. Its systematic position within the genus Drusus is affirmed and some zoogeographical and ecological notes are added.