Article: Recruiting foreign nurses is one of the many strategies used in this country to decrease the nursing shortage.1 The Philippines is a world leader in preparing nurses for migration to the United States primarily because of the economic benefits and the opportunities for career mobility and a better quality of life.2 Nurses from the Philippines have had educational training similar to th...

BACKGROUND Access to clean and safe drinking water that is free from pathogenic protozoan parasites, especially Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia that cause gastrointestinal illness in humans, is still an issue in Southeast Asia (SEA). This study is the first attempt to detect the aforementioned protozoan parasites in water samples from countries in SEA, using real-time polymerase chai...

Arbitration under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) would be the most effective resolution method and would lead to the most favorable outcome for the Philippines against China in the South China Sea (SCS) Dispute. The Philippines will likely not pursue adjudication in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) because the court would likely grant sovereign...

Outbreaks involving the Asian genotype Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused over one million infections in the Americas recently. The outbreak was preceded by a major nationwide outbreak in the Philippines. We examined the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships of representative CHIKV isolates obtained from the 2012 Philippines outbreak with other CHIKV isolates collected globally. Asian CH...

Reconstructing the evolutionary history, demographic signal and dispersal processes from viral genome sequences contributes to our understanding of the epidemiological dynamics underlying epizootic events. In this study, a Bayesian phylogenetic framework was used to explore the phylodynamics and spatio-temporal dispersion of the O CATHAY topotype of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) that caus...

WPSAR Vol 6, Suppl 1, 2015 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.3.HYN_023 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 25 a Offi ce of the WHO Representative in the Philippines, Sta Cruz, Manila, Philippines. Submitted: 17 September 2015; Published: 6 November 2015 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.3.HYN_023 The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Office in the Philippines is accustomed to responding to disasters as the c...

A new species of the scleractinian coral genus M ontastrea de Blainville, 1830 was discovered in the Philippines and has been given the name Montastrea multipunctata. This species may have been previously overlooked due to its striking resemblance to a co-occurring zoanthid. Montastrea multipunctata is unusual because in situ, sediment accumulation often partially covers the corallum, especiall...

Citation: Macusi ED, Abreo NAS and Babaran RP (2017) Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) on Fish Behavior Around Anchored FADs: the Case of Tuna Purse Seine and Ringnet Fishers from Southern Philippines. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:188. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00188 Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) on Fish Behavior Around Anchored FADs: the Case of Tuna Purse Seine and Ringnet Fishers from Southern Philipp...

Joseph M. PASIA Xavier GANDIBLEUX Karl F. DOERNER Richard F. HARTL Department of Mathematics Laborataire d‘ Informatique de Nantes Atlantique Department of Management Science Department of Management Science University of the Philippines-Diliman Université de Nantes University of Vienna University of Vienna Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Nantes, FRANCE Vienna, AUSTRIA Vienna, AUSTRIA [email protected]...

Two new species of potamid freshwater crabs of the genus Ovitamon Ng & Takeda, 1992, are described from the islands of Mindoro and Panay, Philippines. The two new species can easily be distinguished from congeners by the morphologies of their carapaces and male first gonopods. Six species of Ovitamon are now known from the islands of central and western Philippines.