Errata.Azziz-Baumgarmer et al. noticed two errors in "Case-Control Study of an Acute Aflatoxicosis af·la·tox·i·co·sis n. Poisoning caused by the consumption of substances or foods contaminated with aflatoxin. aflatoxicosis the disease caused by the toxin aflatoxin. Outbreak--Kenya?" [Environ Health Perspect 113:1779-1783]. The units in Figure 2 and Table 2 should be nanograms per milligram instead of micrograms per milligram. The errors were introduced when new figures and tables were generated during the final revision of the paper. The authors apologize for these errors. In the article by Feist et al. [Environ Health Perspect 113:1675-1682], the units were incorrect in several figures and tables: "Lipid ([micor]g/g)" should be "[micro]g/g lipid" in Tables 1 and 2 and in the y-axes of Figures 2 and 3A-C. Also, on the y-axes in Figure 5A-D A-D Advance-Decline, or measurement of the number of issues trading above their previous closing prices less the number trading below their previous closing prices over a particular period. , "dL" should be "mL." EHP regrets these errors. The photograph on page A29 of the January 2006 NIEHS NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH, DHHS) News section should have been credited to Jennifer Gorenstein/UTMDACC COEP COEP Government College of Engineering, Pune, India COEP Centralized Order Entry Pharmacy . The photographs on page A30 should have been credited to Tom Van Biersel/Louisiana Geological Survey (left) and Bryan Parras/UTMB (right). Additionally, Parras's photograph depicts residents of Pointe-aux-Chenes, not LaRose, and includes no COEP staff. In the Beyond the Bench article in this same section, "COEPs Contribute to Hurricane Relief" [Environ Health Perspect 114:A30-A31 (2006)], Peter Thorne was incorrectly identified as director of the University of Iowa Not to be confused with Iowa State University. The first faculty offered instruction at the University in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, the student body numbered 124, of which, 41 were women. COEP; he is in fact director of the University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center as well as head of the NIEHS Working Group on Mold, Microbial Agents, and Respiratory Diseases. It was the latter group that "collected air and surface samples from water-damaged homes in New Orleans" as our article stated. Finally, the aid teams that traveled throughout Louisiana included members from the UTMDACC UTMDACC University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center COEP as well as the UTMB COEP. EHP regrets the errors. In the January Focus article "In Katrina's Wake" [Environ Health Perspect 114:A32-A39 (2005)], Hurricane Katrina was identified as a Category 4 storm, reflecting statements from the National Hurricane Center The U.S. National Hurricane Center, located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and as of press time. The National Hurricane Center has since reported that Katrina was actually a Category 3 storm at the time of landfall. |
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