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Dietary Cholesterol Modulates Pathogen Blocking by Wolbachia

The bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis protects its hosts from a range of pathogens by limiting their ability to form infections inside the insect. This “pathogen blocking” could be explained by innate immune priming by the symbiont, competition for host-derived resources between pathogens a...

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Autores principales: Caragata, Eric P., Rancès, Edwige, Hedges, Lauren M., Gofton, Alexander W., Johnson, Karyn N., O'Neill, Scott L., McGraw, Elizabeth A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003459