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Obligatory symbiotic Wolbachia endobacteria are absent from Loa loa

BACKGROUND: Many filarial nematodes harbour Wolbachia endobacteria. These endobacteria are transmitted vertically from one generation to the next. In several filarial species that have been studied to date they are obligatory symbionts of their hosts. Elimination of the endobacteria by antibiotics i...

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Autores principales: Büttner, Dietrich W, Wanji, Samuel, Bazzocchi, Chiara, Bain, Odile, Fischer, Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC161789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12801420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2883-2-10