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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Public Library of Science (PLoS),
2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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