The endosymbiont Wolbachia rebounds following antibiotic treatment.

Antibiotic treatment has emerged as a promising strategy to sterilize and kill filarial nematodes due to their dependence on their endosymbiotic bacteria, Wolbachia. Several studies have shown that novel and FDA-approved antibiotics are efficacious at depleting the filarial nematodes of their endosy...

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Main Authors: Emma L Gunderson, Ian Vogel, Laura Chappell, Christina A Bulman, K C Lim, Mona Luo, Jeffrey D Whitman, Chris Franklin, Young-Jun Choi, Emilie Lefoulon, Travis Clark, Brenda Beerntsen, Barton Slatko, Makedonka Mitreva, William Sullivan, Judy A Sakanari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1008623&type=printable