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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kumar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6165528 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Insects 20180808 3
Mosquitoes live under the endless threat of infections from different kinds of pathogens such as bacteria, parasites, and viruses. The mosquito defends itself by employing both physical and physiological barriers that resist the entry of the pathogen and the subsequent establishment of the pathogen within the mosquito. However, if the pathogen does gain entry into the insect, the insect mounts a vigorous innate cellular and humoral immune response against the pathogen, thereby limiting the patho ...[more]