Wolbachia: can we save lives with a great pandemic?

D LePage, SR Bordenstein - Trends in parasitology, 2013 - cell.com
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 …

Wolbachia pipientis: an expanding bag of tricks to explore for disease control

PE Cook, EA McGraw - Trends in parasitology, 2010 - cell.com
Wolbachia pipientis are maternally inherited, endosymbiotic bacteria that are widespread
among insects. Two recent studies have demonstrated that Wolbachia inhibits the ability of …

Wolbachia as translational science: controlling mosquito-borne pathogens

EP Caragata, HLC Dutra, PHF Sucupira… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
In this review we examine how exploiting the Wolbachia–mosquito relationship has become
an increasingly popular strategy for controlling arbovirus transmission. Field deployments of …

Exploiting intimate relationships: controlling mosquito-transmitted disease with Wolbachia

EP Caragata, HLC Dutra, LA Moreira - Trends in parasitology, 2016 - cell.com
Mosquito-transmitted diseases impose a growing burden on human health, and current
control strategies have proven insufficient to stem the tide. The bacterium Wolbachia is a …

[HTML][HTML] Wolbachia endosymbionts and human disease control

BE Slatko, AN Luck, SL Dobson, JM Foster - Molecular and biochemical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Most human filarial nematode parasites and arthropods are hosts for a bacterial
endosymbiont, Wolbachia. In filaria, Wolbachia are required for normal development, fertility …

Wolbachia Infections Are Virulent and Inhibit the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum in Anopheles Gambiae

GL Hughes, R Koga, P Xue, T Fukatsu… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria are potent modulators of pathogen infection and
transmission in multiple naturally and artificially infected insect species, including important …

Wolbachia Can Enhance Plasmodium Infection in Mosquitoes: Implications for Malaria Control?

GL Hughes, A Rivero, JL Rasgon - PLoS pathogens, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The symbiotic bacterium Wolbachia is an attractive agent for vector-borne pathogen control.
It has long been studied for its ability to manipulate host reproduction and spread into …

Wolbachia infection in wild mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae): implications for transmission modes and host-endosymbiont associations in Singapore

H Ding, H Yeo, N Puniamoorthy - Parasites & Vectors, 2020 - Springer
Background Wolbachia are intracellular bacterial endosymbionts found in most insect
lineages. In mosquitoes, the influence of these endosymbionts on host reproduction and …

Microbe Profile: Wolbachia: a sex selector, a viral protector and a target to treat filarial nematodes

MJ Taylor, SR Bordenstein, B Slatko - Microbiology, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
Wolbachia is the most widespread genus of endosymbiotic bacteria in the animal world,
infecting a diverse range of arthropods and nematodes. A broad spectrum of associations …

Making (good) use of Wolbachia: what the models say

F Vavre, S Charlat - Current opinion in microbiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Wolbachia, probably the most common animal endosymbiont, infects a wide range of
arthropods as well as filarial nematodes. Generally vertically transmitted from mothers to …