The potential role of Walbachia as a defensive mutualist in the Onchocerca ochengi nodule
Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) is a continuing major cause of human blindness, skin disease and socioeconomic impediment in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. An estimated 37 million people are infected and a further 89 million are at risk. Human onchocerciasis is caused by the filarial nematod...
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University of Liverpool
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569645 |