Yaumatei Dermatology Clinic, 12/F, Yaumatei Specialist Clinic, 143 Battery street, Kowloon, Hong Kong A 52-year-old Chinese man with twenty years of psoriasis presented with characteristic cobblestonelike lesions over his legs. Biopsy of the lesions showed pseudo-epitheliomatous hyperplasia typical of elephantiasis nostras verrucosa. This is the first reported case of elephantiasis nostras verr...

The araneid spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 is revised. Five of the seven previously known species, V. arenata (Walckenaer, 1841), V. lampra Soares & Camargo, 1948, V. meridionalis (Keyserling, 1892), V. undecimvariolata (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) and V. zebra (Keyserling, 1892), are redescribed and illustrated. In addition, 37 new species of Verrucosa from the Neotropical region are desc...

lupus vulgaris by pyrogallol ointment, acid nitrate of mercury, alkaline phenol and salicylic acid-creosote plaster. According to him the salicylic acid and creosote plaster acted well in some cases, but was slow. He, however, did not describe the variety of lupus vulgaris that responds best to this plaster. During the last few years we have tried various caustics in treating different kinds of...

The species diversity and identification of black fungi belonging to Cyphellophora and Phialophora, which colonize and infect human skin and nails, were studied using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). A total of 76 Cyphellophora and Phialophora isolates were evaluated, and their delimitation was compared to earlier studies using multilocus sequencing. The results of the AFLP analys...

Although pretibial myxedema (PTM) occurs in 4.3% of patients with Graves's disease, the most severe variant, elephantiasis nostras verrucosa, is found in less than 1% of cases. The most frequent location of infiltration is the lower extremities, especially the pretibial areas and on the dorsum of the foot. The authors report one of the most severe cases of elephantiasis nostras verrucosa, follo...

Rumput laut Gracilaria verrucosa sangat potensial sebagai bahan baku lokal tambahan nutrisi pakan ikan yang dibudidayakan karena memiliki kandungan baik terutama protein. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis efektifitas dengan rumput G. terhadap laju kecernaan nutrien dan retensi protein pada bandeng (Chanos chanos Forsk.). Metode penelitian digunakan adalah metode eksperimental mengguna...

A region comprising the 5.8S RNA gene and internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 of the take-all patch fungus, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. avenae, was cloned and sequenced using primers from the flanking 17S and 26S ribosomal RNA genes. The sequenced region had 99% similarity between the two G. graminis isolates, and from 70% to 80% similarity between these two isolates and several other species...