Infection of the intermediate mite host with Wolbachia-depleted Litomosoides sigmodontis microfilariae: Impaired L1 to L3 development and subsequent sex-ratio distortion in adult worms

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 38, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 981-987

  Arumugam, Sridhar ^a   Pfarr, Kenneth M ^a   Hoerauf, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

FtsZ; Litomosoides sigmodontis; Real time PCR; Tetracycline; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MITE; NEMATODE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; RODENT; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FILARIASIS; GERBIL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MICROFILARIA; MITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; GERBILLINAE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROFILARIA; MITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX RATIO; TETRACYCLINE; WOLBACHIA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; FILARIA; GERBILLINAE; LITOMOSOIDES SIGMODONTIS; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; ORNITHONYSSUS BACOTI; RODENTIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 43849083211     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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