While fleas are often perceived simply as a biting nuisance and a cause of allergic
dermatitis, they represent important disease vectors worldwide, especially for bacterial …

Bacterial endosymbionts of the groups Wolbachia, Cardinium and Rickettsiaceae are well
known for their diverse effects on their arthropod hosts, ranging from mutualistic …

The intracellular bacterium Wolbachia inhibits virus replication and is being harnessed
around the world to fight mosquito-borne diseases through releases of mosquitoes carrying …

The intracellular endosymbiotic proteobacteria Wolbachia have evolved across the phyla
nematoda and arthropoda. In Wolbachia phylogeny, supergroup F is the only clade known …

Bacteriophages are vastly abundant, diverse, and influential, but with few exceptions (eg the
Proteobacteria genera Wolbachia and Hamiltonella), the role of phages in heritable bacteria …

The relationship of Wolbachia endosymbionts to their filarial nematode hosts is considered
obligately mutualistic because experimental depletion of Wolbachia resulted in lowered …

Objectives: To determine the prevalence, severity and distribution of erosive tooth wear
lesions in adult patients at the Universidad de los Andes Health Center in the San Bernardo …