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Lipids and Pathogen Blocking by Wolbachia
1School of Biomedical Sciences and Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.
Trends in Parasitology
|November 11, 2017
Abstract:
Mosquito-borne viruses are major human pathogens. Introducing Wolbachia into mosquitoes could reduce disease burdens because these bacteria block virus transmission. How Wolbachia does this is unclear, but new data show that modulation of host-cell lipids is critical.