Spiroplasma and host immunity: Activation of humoral immune responses increases endosymbiont load and susceptibility to certain Gram-negative bacterial pathogens in Drosophila melanogaster

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1385-1396

  Herren, Jeremy K ^a   Lemaitre, Bruno ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA POULSONII;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPIROPLASMA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NEGIBACTERIA; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA CITRI; SPIROPLASMA POULSONII;

EID: 80051814857     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01627.x     Document Type: Article

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