Wolbachia: Can We Save Lives with a Great Pandemic?

Overview

Journal Trends Parasitol

Specialty Parasitology

Date 2013 Jul 13

PMID 23845310

Citations 50

Authors

Daniel Lepage

Seth R Bordenstein

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Abstract

Wolbachia pipientis is the most common bacterial infection in the animal world and wields a vast influence on invertebrate reproduction, sex determination, speciation, and behavior worldwide. These avenues of research have made seminal gains, including the latest use of Wolbachia to alter mosquito populations and a strengthened focus on using anti-Wolbachia therapies against filarial nematode infections. This work is further bolstered by a more refined knowledge of Wolbachia biology spanning mechanisms to relevance. Here we tally the most up-to-date knowledge in the field and review the immense implications that this global infection has for the basic and applied life sciences.

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