| soldado virus (hughes group) from ornithodoros (alectorobius) capensis (ixodoidea: argasidae) infesting sooty tern colonies in the seychelles, indian ocean. | in the summer of 1973, about 5,000 pairs of adult sooty terns abandoned a specific part of their breeding grounds on bird island in the seychelles. incubated eggs and newly hatched chicks were left unattended and the area was not reoccupied in 1974. numerous ornithodoros (alectorobius) capensis occurred in the deserted part in both years, but few or none in the area where bird breeding was normal. persons visiting the deserted area were bitten by many ticks and experienced severe pruritus persis ... | 1975 | 1200252 |
| longitudinal neurodevelopmental study of seychellois children following in utero exposure to methylmercury from maternal fish ingestion: outcomes at 19 and 29 months. | despite the importance of defining developmental consequences for humans of in utero exposure to low levels of methylmercury, it is not yet clear if there are postnatal effects in fish-eating populations. the seychelles child development study (scds), now underway in the republic of seychelles, is following children to test the hypothesis that prenatal exposure to low concentrations of mehg through maternal ingestion of fish is related to child development outcomes. in this study, children were ... | 1995 | 8714872 |