Twelve species of Leptobrachium are known from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, most of which have been described to science in the past twelve years. Our fieldwork on the Dakchung Plateau of southeastern Laos discovered a small Leptobrachium with a yellow upper iris that resembled L. buchardi, a species known only by the female holotype from the Bolaven Plateau of southern Laos. We use our new coll...

Name: Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus Synonyms: Tomato spotted wilt virus Pineapple yellow spot virus Taxonomic position: Viruses: Bunyaviridae: Tospovirus Common names: TSWV (acronym) Spotted wilt, bronze leaf (English) Maladie bronzée (French) Bronceado (Spanish) Bronzefleckenkrankheit (German) Vira-cabeça (Portuguese) Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature: this virus with isometric particles is ...

Abstract Yellow-flag iris ( Iris pseudacorus L.) is a nonnative, invasive wetland plant that disrupts riparian ecosystem processes and widely distributed across the United States Canada. Due to its physiological morphological characteristics, I. has capacity exclude native vegetation form extensive monocultures in both lotic lentic systems. Methods commonly used manage include manual (e.g., han...

abstract polymyxa betae is an obligate parasite and has a worldwide distribution. this fungus is a soil-borne root endoparasite in some plant families such as portulaceae, chenopodiaceae and amaranthaceae. this fungus is the vector of many plant viruses such as beet necrotic yellow vein virus (bnyvv) which causes the disease known as rhizomania. bnyvv is the most economical important viral dise...

Aim of study. To describe the emergence of dengue 3 virus in Côte d’Ivoire during a yellow fever outbreak which occurred in 2008. Materials and methods. Sera from suspected cases of yellow fever as well as contacts of yellow fever confirmed cases and imported dengue fever cases were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) antiyellow fever virus and anti-dengue virus (for IgM antibodies to yellow feve...

1. The yellow fever now in South America, the present yellow fever of Africa and the historic yellow fever of Panama and other American countries are the same disease. This conclusion is based on cross immunity tests in monkeys with strains of yellow fever virus from Africa and Brazil and on tests of sera from 25 persons, who had recovered from yellow fever in various places and at various time...

Two epizootics of cultured shrimp occurred in India in 1994. The first case of mass mortalities of tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon in July 1994 was very similar to that caused by yellowhead virus (YHV) infection with regard to gross clinical signs, host species and size of shrimp affected, but it was histologically atypical. Very interestingly, intranuclear inclusions typical of a white spot syndr...