The relative importance of innate immune priming in Wolbachia-mediated dengue interference.

The non-virulent Wolbachia strain wMel and the life-shortening strain wMelPop-CLA, both originally from Drosophila melanogaster, have been stably introduced into the mosquito vector of dengue fever, Aedes aegypti. Each of these Wolbachia strains interferes with viral pathogenicity and/or disseminati...

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Main Authors: Edwige Rancès, Yixin H Ye, Megan Woolfit, Elizabeth A McGraw, Scott L O'Neill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-02-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3285598?pdf=render