The Caulobacter crescentus cell extension known as a stalk represents an unusual bacterial morphology. C. crescentus produces stalks under multiple nutrient conditions, but the length of the stalk is increased in response to phosphate starvation. However, the exact function of the stalk is not known, nor is it known how much stalk biogenesis or function is conserved with other stalked bacteria....

Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) has shown therapeutic effects on atopic dermatitis (AD); however, the mechanism for AIT and parameters influencing efficacy are not fully understood. Here, we report that microbial community structure functions of oral gut microbiota in AD patients changed with successful AIT. Transplantation fecal from undertaking improved AD-like mice. The abundance Brevu...

The study of recently collected Afrotropical Muscidae (Diptera) from Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and South Africa has revealed ten new species which are described herein: Coenosia duomaculata sp. nov., C. nigromaculata sp. nov., C. fragilis sp. nov., Helina harrisorum sp. nov., H. ferfriniorum sp. nov., Hydrotaea tantula sp. nov., Limnophora diminuta sp. nov., L. antennalis...

Cestodes Since 1993 (1) several cases of sparganosis caused probably by Spirometra sp. have been observed. (5,6 and Samarasinghe S, personal communication). Bertiella studeri, an anoplocephalid tapeworm, is now recognised as a parasite acquired in areas where monkey reservoir hosts abound (7). As summarised by the present author (8) this cestode (Weerasooriya MV, Edirisinghe JS, personal commun...

Three new species of the Neotropical sharpshooter genus Subrasaca Young, 1977 from Southeastern and Southern Brazil are described and illustrated: S. diminuta sp. nov. (State of São Paulo and State of Paraná), S. rubra sp. nov. (State of Minas Gerais and State of São Paulo), and S. rachelae sp. nov. (State of Espirito Santo). Subrasaca nigriventris (Signoret, 1855) is reinterpreted, redescribed...