Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Mauritskade 61, 1092 AD Amsterdam, the Netherlands Botanisches Institut, Abteilung Systematik und Biodiversität, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 170, 53115 Bonn, Germany Departamento de Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias Biolóxicas, Universidade de Vigo, Buzón 137, Apdo. 87...

In December 1993, a light-trap survey was made of the Culicoides found at eight horse stables and dairies in the sandy dune field west of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. While it was notable that Culicoides numbers were low (4749) and that the diversity was poor (15 species), the most remarkable fact to emerge, was that C. imicola, the only proven vector of the virus of African horse sickness (AH...

Dorothy Kay, the acclaimed Irish-born Port Elizabeth artist, married Dr Hobart Kay, FRCSI, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1910. She was an exceptional portrait painter, whose astute observation of detail and ability to empathise with her subject and convey character brought her much important work. Her traditional British realist-school style of painting, and ability to depict mechanical equipm...

At least half of all known drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients in the Port Elizabeth area (and possibly the entire Eastern Cape) are being treated with too few drugs, fuelling the spread of extensively drug-resistant (XDR)-TB and condemning them to death. Similar dynamics, though not quite as alarming, pertain in KwaZulu-Natal and to a lesser extent in the Western Cape. An atypi-cal (B...

328 May 2015, Vol. 105, No. 5 VIM-2 carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a patient from Port Elizabeth, South Africa To the Editor: We report on the emergence of a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate in a public hospital in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (SA), where the lack of antibiotic stewardship may have been a contributing factor. A 76-year...

1 School of Biological Sciences, School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK, 2 Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 3 Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 4 Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of ...