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Fellows of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and members of the Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine are invited to forward to the journal, details of their publications which have appeared in journals other than Emergency Medicine Australasia during the period September-October 2005. Commentary on these papers will appear in the April 2006 issue of the journal. Copies of the papers are to be forwarded by mail or fax to journal headquarters (34 Jeffcott Street, West Melbourne, Victoria 3003, Australia; fax: +61 3 9320 0400) by 15 November 2005. Alternatively, an electronic copy in PDF format may be e-mailed to . The next call will be for papers published in the period November-December 2005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Schultzei group of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) is distributed throughout Africa to northern Asia and Australasia and includes several potential vector species of livestock pathogens. The taxonomy of the species belonging to this species group is confounded by the wide geographical distribution and morphological variation exhibited by many species. In this work, morphological and molecular approaches were combined to assess the taxonomic validity of the species and morphological variants of the Schultzei group found in Senegal by comparing their genetic diversity with that of specimens from other geographical regions. The species list for Senegal was updated with four species: Culicoides kingi, C. oxystoma, C. enderleini and C. nevilli being recorded. This is the first record of C. oxystoma from Africa south of Sahara, and its genetic relationship with samples from Israel, Japan and Australia is presented. This work provides a basis for ecological studies of the seasonal and spatial dynamics of species of this species group that will contribute to better understanding of the epidemiology of the viruses they transmit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]