Rodent-borne disease surveillance was conducted at Nightmare Range (NM-R), near the demilitarized zone in northeast Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, to identify hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) risks for a mountainous high-elevation (500 m) military training site. Monthly surveys were conducted from January 2008-December 2009. A total of 1,720 small mammals were captured belong...

The soil of several floodplain areas along large European rivers shows increased levels of heavy metals as a relict from past sedimentation of contaminants. These levels may pose risks of accumulation in food webs and toxicologic effects on flora and fauna. However, for floodplains, data on heavy-metal concentrations in vertebrates are scarce. Moreover, these environments are characterised by p...

Several species of mitosporic fungi collected from Guilan and Mazandaran provinces were examined and as a result, four species viz.,Pestalotiopsis acaciae (on Diospyros lotus), Prathigada condensata (on Gleditschia caspica), Stigmella effigurata (on Castanea sativa), Teratosperma uniappendiculatum (on perthecia of Cryphonectria parasitica) are reported as new records for Iranian mycobiota. More...

Rodents and soricomorphs are animal hosts of fleas and associated zoonotic microbial pathogens. A total of 4,889 small mammals were collected from Gyeonggi and Gangwon Provinces, Republic of Korea, from 2008 through 2010, including: Apodemus agrarius (4,122, 84.3%), followed by Crocidura lasiura (282, 5.8%), Microtus fortis (257, 5.3%), Myodes regulus (77, 1.6%), Micromys minutus (71, 1.5%), Mu...

In order to identify Daldinia species in Guilan province, several specimens were collected during 2011–13. A total of six taxa, including Daldinia caldariorum (on Morus alba); D. childiae (on Parrotia persica, Pterocarya fraxinifolia, Morus alba, Quercus sp., Prunus sp., Citrus sinensis, Gleditschia caspica, Buxus sempervirens, Carpinis betulus and Alnus subcordata); D. gelatinoides (on M. alba...

The studies were carried out on the territory of State National Natural Park «Kulsai Lakes», located northern macroslope Kungei Alatau ridge. main dominant species plant communities southern slopes mountains with bedrock outcrops at altitudes 1600-2000 m a. s. l. have been identified. These are shrubs - Juniperus sabina, Cotoneaster melanocarpus, Ephedra intermedia, Artemisia gmelinii. Dominant...

BACKGROUND Many RNA viruses arise from animal reservoirs, namely bats, rodents and insectivores but mechanisms of virus maintenance and transmission still need to be addressed. The bicolored white-toothed shrew (Crocidura leucodon) has recently been identified as reservoir of the neurotropic Borna disease virus 1 (BoDV-1). PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Six out of eleven wild living bicoloured white-toot...