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Onchocerca armillata contains the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia and elicits a limited inflammatory response

Human onchocerciasis, also known as River Blindness, is a debilitating disease caused by the filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus. Many, but not all, filarial nematodes carry within their tissues endosymbiotic, Rickettsia-like bacteria of the genus Wolbachia. Onchocerca spp. infections in cattle of...

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Autores principales: Neary, Joseph M., Trees, Alexander J., Ekale, David D., Tanya, Vincent N., Hetzel, Udo, Makepeace, Benjamin L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3038270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20850932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.08.031