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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Sodalis glossinidius
SUBMITTER: Anne Geiger
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-48360 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Frontiers in microbiology 20140527
Sodalis glossinidius, one of the three tsetse fly maternally inherited symbionts, was previously shown to favor fly infection by trypanosomes, the parasites causing human sleeping sickness. Among a population of flies taking a trypanosome-infected blood meal, only a few individuals will acquire the parasite; the others will escape infection and be considered as refractory to trypanosome infection. The aim of the work was to investigate whether fly refractoriness could be associated with specific ...[more]