The impact of Wolbachia on virus infection in mosquitoes

Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5705-5717

  Johnson, Karyn N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antiviral effects; Antiviral protection; Arbovirus; Drosophila; Insect virus; Mosquito; Symbiosis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARBOVIRUS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CRICKET PARALYSIS VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA C VIRUS; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLOCK HOUSE VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE VIRUS; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT VECTOR; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; INSECT VECTORS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRUSES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84946570997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v7112903     Document Type: Review

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