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Wolbachia-Associated Bacterial Protection in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

BACKGROUND: Wolbachia infections confer protection for their insect hosts against a range of pathogens including bacteria, viruses, nematodes and the malaria parasite. A single mechanism that might explain this broad-based pathogen protection is immune priming, in which the presence of the symbiont...

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Autores principales: Ye, Yixin H., Woolfit, Megan, Rancès, Edwige, 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/PMC3738474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23951381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002362