In October 2001, an outbreak of febrile illness began in the southwest islands group of the Republic of Palau. Through October 2003, a total of 15 southwest islanders experienced fever >39.5 degrees C and abdominal distress, both lasting >7 days. Orientia tsutsugamushi, the agent of scrub typhus, was subsequently identified as the cause.

Junbo Zhang,1,† Tianrui Li,1,∗ Da Ruan,2,3,‡ Dun Liu4,§ School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, People’s Republic of China Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN), Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium Department of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Ghent University, 9000 Gent, Belgium School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong...

Jepsen, G. Olhoeft, S. Painter, J. Priscu; Dept. of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St. #400, Boulder CO 80302 ([email protected]); Dept. of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Dept. of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Dept. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Center for...

1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, TX, USA 2Division of Hematology & Oncology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, Lubbock, TX, USA 3Kiromic Inc., Lubbock, TX, USA 4Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Departments of Mo...

Dorvilleids were collected from hydrothermal vents on the Southwest Indian Ridge by manned submersible Jiaolong. These represent a new species of Ophryotrocha that is here described as Ophryotrocha jiaolongisp. n. This is the first dorvilleid described from vents on the Southwest Indian Ridge. It most closely resembles another vent species, Ophryotrocha akessoni Blake, 1985 from the Galapagos R...

ROBIN S. WAPLES,∗ PETER B. ADAMS,† JAMES BOHNSACK,‡ AND BARBARA L. TAYLOR§ ∗Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2725 Montlake Boulevard East, Seattle, WA 98112, U.S.A., email [email protected] †Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, U.S.A. ‡Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL 33149, U.S.A. §Southwest Fisheries Science C...

examining the role of glaze \vare pottery in the social lives of the late precontact and early contact Pueblos. By tracing the circulation of spe­ cialized knowledge, raw materials, and the glaze-painted pots themselves, through interactive networks ofvarying sizes and scales, these researchers reveal how glaze ware production, distribution, and use articulated with a variety of dynamic histori...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome by age, sex, and diabetes status in Northern Plains and Southwest American Indians. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data for this analysis came from the Education and Research Toward Health (EARTH) study, a 5-year cross-sectional study of Southwest and Northern Plains American Indian adults. The National Cholesterol Education Program's Ad...

We report the unprecedented Lapita exploitation and subsequent extinction of large megafauna tortoises (?Meiolania damelipi) on tropical islands during the late Holocene over a 281,000 km2 region of the southwest Pacific spanning from the Vanuatu archipelago to Viti Levu in Fiji. Zooarchaeological analyses have identified seven early archaeological sites with the remains of this distinctive hor...