Predicting and controlling infectious disease epidemics is a major challenge facing the management of agriculture, human and wildlife health. Co-evolutionarily derived patterns of local adaptation among pathogen populations have the potential to generate variation in disease epidemiology; however, studies of local adaptation in disease systems have mostly focused on interactions between competi...

BACKGROUND In aromatherapy, essential oils are used as anti-inflammatory remedies, but experimental studies on their action mechanisms are very limited. AIMS OF THE STUDY To assess their anti-inflammatory activities, the effects of essential oils on neutrophil recruitment in mice were examined in vivo. METHOD The effect of essential oils on leukocyte and neutrophil recruitment induced 6 h a...

Dear Editor, Epicrania fugax (EF) has been recently classified as a primary headache in the Appendix of the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition, beta version (1). EF is characterized by a brief paroxysmal pain following a lineal or zigzag trajectory across the head surface. EF pain typically moves between two distant points through the territories of different nerves...

Plant oils and oil components were screened in vitro for antibacterial and antifungal activity by disc diffusion method. Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) of oils (% v/v) against bacteria and fungi were determined by agar dilution method. Results showed that potential antimicrobial activity was demonstrated by geranium oil, geraniol, and terpineol. These oils and oil components were acti...