Nian Liu 1,*, Cheng Wang 1, Xinhao Lin 1 and Jinyong Lei 2 1 State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, North China Electric Power University, Changping District, Beijing 102206, China; [email protected] (C.W.); [email protected] (X.L.) 2 Electrical Power Research Institute, China Southern Power Grid (CSG), Guangzhou 510080, China; leijy@csg....

Li-Juan Zhou, Lang-Tao Xiao, and Hong-Wei Xue National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200032 Shanghai, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China Hunan Provinci...

BACKGROUND Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is known to be a highly contagious childhood illness. In recent years, the number of reported cases of HFMD has significantly increased in mainland China. This study aims at the epidemiological features, spatiotemporal patterns of HMFD at the county/district level in mainland China. METHODS Data on reported HFMD cases for each county from 1 Janu...

To the Editor: Since 2000, the People's Republic of China has had a nationwide surveillance network for infl uenza, which as of 2005 has been reported on the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention website (www.cnic.org.cn/ch/). This surveillance has shown a remarkable dual pattern of seasonal infl uenza on mainland China. Whereas a regular winter pattern is noted for northern China (...

A field strain of H3N6 avian influenza virus (AIV), A/duck/Guangxi/175D12/2014(H3N6), was isolated from a native duck in Guangxi Province, southern China, in 2014. All of the eight AIV gene segments were sequenced, and sequence results revealed that there were 11 amino acid deletions at the NA stalk region. The NA, PB2, and NP genes showed highest homology to H5N6 AIV, and the PA gene showed hi...

Management School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, [email protected] Management School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, [email protected] 3 Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia, [email protected] 4 Curtin University Susta...

We describe a simple approach for detecting beta-thalassemia mutations in geographic areas such as southern China where multiple mutations are known to occur. Segments of the beta-globin gene were amplified in vitro by using the polymerase chain reaction. Dot blot hybridization of the amplified DNA with oligonucleotide probes corresponding to the six mutations found in southern China could dire...

Projections of future precipitation change over China are studied based on the output of a global AGCM, ECHAM5, with a high resolution of T319 (equivalent to 40 km). Evaluation of the model’s performance in simulating present-day precipitation shows encouraging results. The spatial distributions of both mean and extreme precipitation, especially the locations of main precipitation centers, are ...

Southern China experienced few cases of H7N9 during the first wave of human infections in the spring of 2013. The second and now the third waves of H7N9 infections have been localized mostly in Southern China with the Guangdong province an epicenter for the generation of novel H7N9 reassortants. Clusters of human infections show human-to-human transmission to be a rare but well-documented event...

BACKGROUND The number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of the H5N1 subtype (HPAIV H5N1) over the past 5 years has been drastically reduced in China but sporadic infections in poultry and humans are still occurring. In this study, we aimed to investigate seasonal patterns in the association between the movement of live poultry originating from southern China and HPAIV H5N1...