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Adult Mosquitoes Infected with Bacteria Early in Life Have Stronger Antimicrobial Responses and More Hemocytes after Reinfection Later in Life

The immunological strategies employed by insects to overcome infection vary with the type of infection and may change with experience. We investigated how a bacterial infection in the hemocoel of the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, prepares the immune system to face a subsequent bacteri...

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Autores principales: Powers, Joseph C., Turangan, Raymar, Joosse, Bryan A., Hillyer, Julián F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7349202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32481519
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11060331