1 Key Laboratory of Land Resources Evaluation and Monitoring of Southwest, Sichuan Normal University, Ministry of Education, Chengdu 610068, Sichuan, China 2 School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, Sichuan, China 3 Institute of Medical Information and Technology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Gu...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), is one of the major causes of death in the world today. Although China has the second largest global case rate of tuberculosis, a systematic study of TB prevalence in China has not been completed. From 2006 to 2007, the base line surveillance of tuberculosis was carried out by Ministry of Health, and more than 40...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Yingli Lian, Meiying Xu 4 , Yuming Zhong, Yongqiang Yang, Fanrong Chen, Jun Guo 1. School of Biological Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China. 2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangz...

1School of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, 210037 Nanjing, China. 2Danzhou Investigation & Experiment Station of Tropical Crops, Ministry of Agriculture/Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China 3Advanced Analysis and Testing Centre, Nanjing Forestry University, 210037 Nanjing, China. 4College of Forestry, ...

In the two most recent decades, more frequent drought struck southern China during autumn, causing an unprecedented water crisis. We found that the increasing autumn drought is largely attributed to an ENSO regime shift. Compared to traditional eastern Pacific (EP) El Niño, central Pacific (CP) El Niño events have occurred more frequently, with maximum sea surface temperature anomalies located ...

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a zoonotic disease, which threatens public health and its incidence has increased sharply up to the present time in southern China. A survey of HFRS including in both the natural hosts and humans conducted in Qingyuan, southern China, during 2011-2013 revealed that one, two and seven confirmed cases of HFRS occurred in 2011, 2012 and 2013, respect...

This study aims to test urban adult Chinese consumers’ level of consumer ethnocentrism and examining the moderating effects of location, age group and education levels. It collected 367 questionnaires in ShenyangNorthern China and Shenzhen – Southern China. The findings suggested urban adult Chinese consumers have relative low level of ethnocentrism beliefs. There is no strong negative bias tow...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis in China. Recently, a shift in molecular epidemiology from hepatitis E genotype 1 (HEV-1) to hepatitis E genotype 4 (HEV-4) has been observed in Northern China, marking a switch from human-to-human transmission to zoonosis. However, similar data from cities in Southern China are lacking. This observational study of human ...

Leucocytozoon parasites infect many species of avian hosts, including domestic chicken, and can inflict heavy economic loss on the poultry industry. Two major species of Leucocytozoon parasites have been reported in China, L. sabrazesi and L. caulleryi, although L. sabrazesi appears to be more widespread than L. caulleryi in southern China. The traditional method for detecting Leucocytozoon inf...

China is a key area for research into human occupation in the Old World after the initial expansion of early humans out of Africa. Reliable age determinations are pivotal for assessing the patterns of human evolution and dispersal in this region. This paper reviews magnetostratigraphic studies of some early Pleistocene strata bearing hominin remains and/or artifact stone tools from northern to ...