Researchers profile symbiotic relationship between bacteria and filarial nematodes
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Filarial nematodes-microscopic, thread-like roundworms-currently infect up to 54 million people worldwide and are the leading cause of disability in the developing world. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have described the relationship between one species of the worm, Brugia malayi, and a bacteria, Wolbachia, that lives in the worm's body. The symbiotic relationship, ["]
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