A team of researchers summarized all the available information on the insect species associated with the Tibetan medicinal fungus Ophiocordyceps sinensis through an extensive literature survey and analyzed their relationships with the fungus.

Abstract A novel, plant growth-promoting bacterium Delftia tsuruhatensis, strain HR4, was isolated from the rhizoplane of rice (Oryza saliva L., cv. Yueguang) in North China.

Abstract Peroral infections of rabbits with a virulent Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:8 wild-type strain (WA-314) and its isogenic Mn-cofactored Superoxide dismutase (sodA) mutant were analyzed with respect to the following parameters: clinical findings, bacterial ability to colonize and persist in different tissues, bacterial resistance to the killing effect of leukocytes and blood sera, IgG antibody response, pathomorphological and immunomorphological changes.