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Ayesha Hassim (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and colleagues published a new paper in Microorganisms showing that an "aggressively lytic" phage hampered isolation of Bacillus anthracis from samples collected from the carcass of a wildebeest suspected to have died of anthrax. This work shows the role phages can play in decreasing apparent bacterial concentrations in samples, and shows the impact phages may have on B. anthracis in the wild.