| here and there: a preliminary note on the prevalence of an alien rhizocephalan parasite at the southern and northern limits of its introduced range. | the erythrean invasive swimming crab charybdis longicollis established dense populations in the levantine basin of the mediterranean sea in the mid 20th century. the crabs were subsequently parasitized by the rhizocephalan heterosaccus dollfusi , itself an erythrean alien. in may 2008, the crab populations were sampled at the southern (israel) and northern (turkey) limits of its introduced range. the prevalence of infection was 3 times as high, and multiple externae-bearing hosts more than 4 tim ... | 2009 | 19530888 |
| infective endocarditis in a tertiary-care hospital in southern israel. | during the years 1980-1994, 84 patients were treated in our institution due to suspected infective endocarditis (ie). seventy-one of these episodes occurring in 71 patients, classified definite or possible according to the duke criteria, were retrospectively analyzed in this study. there were 52 cases of native valve endocarditis, 7 cases of early prosthetic valve endocarditis, and 12 cases of late prosthetic valve endocarditis. the incidence of ie did not change significantly during the study p ... | 1998 | 10641529 |