A 24-year-old man from Eritrea was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections 4 months after his arrival in the UK. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) was commenced with abacavir, lamivudine and ritonavir-boosted lopinavir. He also...

A 31-year-old man reported a six-day history of malaise, night sweats, sleeplessness, tinnitus, and diarrhoea [Spain]. Two weeks earlier, the patient had spent 10 days in Puerto Plata on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Physical examination showed no abnormalities and laboratory test...

The rising number of Czech tourists who spend their holiday in tropical countries and the rising immigration of people from tropical countries with low hygienic standards to the Czech Republic increase the risk of some imported tropical infections in the country. The most common are diarrhoeal...

An outbreak of trichinosis involving a cohort of 33 college students and teachers from Singapore who travelled between 2 June and 5 June 1998 to a resort island in a neighbouring country and had returned was suspected, beginning with 2 initial cases who were hospitalized with a syndrome of fever,...

A review is presented of current studies into ecology, phytosociology, forestry, landscape, recreation, amenity use, environmental education etc. of rural forests (satoyama) in Japan. Four secondary forest types are classified: lucidophyllous, sclerophyllous, summergreen and pine dominated....

A. ryzhikovi n.sp. from under the gizzard cuticle of R. ruficollis [Branta ruficollis] in the Moscow Zoo, USSR, is described and illustrated. The specimens in the VIGIS museum collection were obtained between 1923 and 1937 from 6 redbreasted geese at the zoo. The new species belongs in the group of ...

D. frietasi n.sp., found in a Cebus capucinus which died in the London Zoo, London, UK, is described and figured. It differs from D. caudispina in the smaller body, shorter oesophagus, absence of an area rugosa on the tail, having a vagina with 4 bends, the presence of small phasmidial flaps in the ...

A group of articles was selected to illustrate how adult education programmes can spread information about health care. P.C. Osuhor contributes some basic facts about communicable diseases, and how the spread of these diseases can be arrested. C.K. Dzikunu deals with two of the most widespread...