It is almost a decade since it was shown that a strain of the endosymbiont Wolbachia that infects mosquitoes can make them resistant to the malaria parasite. Wolbachia can also have an impact on dengue, Zika and other mosquito-transmitted diseases.
Wolbachia inhibits binding of dengue and Zika viruses to mosquito cells
Lu P, Sun Q, Fu P, Li K, Liang X, Xi Z.
Front Microbiol 2020; 11: 1750. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01750. eCollection 2020.
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