Anti-filarial Activity of Antibiotic Therapy Is Due to Extensive Apoptosis after Wolbachia Depletion from Filarial Nematodes

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Lipoprotein biosynthesis as a target for anti-Wolbachia treatment of filarial nematodes

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The Wolbachia endosymbiont as an anti-filarial nematode target

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Anaplasma phagocytophilum Ats-1 Is Imported into Host Cell Mitochondria and Interferes with Apoptosis Induction

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WolbachiaLipoprotein Stimulates Innate and Adaptive Immunity through Toll-like Receptors 2 and 6 to Induce Disease Manifestations of Filariasis

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Evidence for Metabolic Provisioning by a Common Invertebrate Endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, during Periods of Nutritional Stress

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Wolbachia Interferes with Ferritin Expression and Iron Metabolism in Insects

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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

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Staying alive: bacterial inhibition of apoptosis during infection

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