INTRODUCTION The inherent beauty of science has recently become more accessible to the general public due to an escalation in the publication of multi-color computer-generated graphics images as well as photomi-crographs and other images of scientific interest. These images are appearing on the covers of many scientific and trade periodicals (currently numbering over 250) where they serve as ey...

background: fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the liver fluke fasciola hepatica . drug resistance, high costs of treatment and economic losses in meat production have emerged the need of alternative control measures into consideration. the aim of this study was to evaluate the in vitro ovicidal activity of paecilomyces lilacinus fungus on f. hepatica eggs. methods: p. lilacinus isola...

T his Letter to the Editor concerns a recent article published in mBio (1). I am offering my comments on this article in the spirit of the correct interpretation of scientific data. My areas of expertise are in electron microscopy and in prokaryotic predators known as Bdellovibrio and Bdellovibrio-like organisms (BALOs). I have a recent article in the International Journal of Systematic and Evo...

To the Editor: Despite the eradi-cation of smallpox in the past century , other orthopoxviruses, such as monkeypox virus, vaccinia virus in Brazil, and cowpox virus (CPXV) in Europe (1), still infect humans. CPXV has been restricted to the Old World with wild rodents as its natural reservoir (2,3). Human CPXV infections are commonly described in relation to contact with diseased domestic cats, ...

main actor in this play is the “portal” or “head-tail conThe question of how the dsDNA bacteriophages get nector,” which is an annular structure made of 12 copies their genomic DNA on the inside of the virus particle, (possibly 13 copies in some cases) of the phage-encoded surrounded by their protein capsid on the outside, has portal protein (Carazo et al., 1986; Dube et al., 1993). been onthe ...