Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2006 1805 sequencing (491 nt) showed 100% identity to the R. parkeri sequence from GenBank (U43802). These procedures enabled the identification of R. parkeri in 2.56% of the A. triste ticks from Uruguay. Previous findings of R. parkeri DNA in A. triste ticks from Uruguay (5) are corroborated by our isolation of a Urugua...

T Discovery Channel documentary Mosquito, worldwide premiere scheduled for July 6, 2017, is an excellent film intended to educate those who are unaware of the dangers posed by mosquitoes worldwide. Well, not exactly. Mosquitoes themselves pose no great dangers to humans, livestock, or wildlife. It is the viruses or other potential pathogens that mosquitoes carry and can transmit that are the da...

I 2006, Elio Schaechter began a blog, titled Small Things Considered, about the microbial world for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). The book, In the Company of Microbes: Ten Years of Small Things Considered, is a selected compilation of 70 of the more than 1,000 blog entries that were posted through 2015. Contributions from 33 writers in addition to Dr. Schaechter are included. The...

In “Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Necrotizing Pneumonia,” by Monica Monaco et al., an error occurred on page 1647, in the first full sentence of the third column. The sentence should read “On day 3 of admission, antimicrobial drug therapy was changed to linezolid (600 mg 2 times a day).” The corrected text appears in the online article at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol11no10/05...

journals. Recent milestones include the Bethesda Open Access Principles meeting (1), the Wellcome Trust endorsement of Open Access, and support from the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation and a number of leading European scientific societies. A panel of speakers gave stakeholders’ perspectives. Sheldon Kotzin reviewed the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) priorities regarding access to, and pe...

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