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Rate of Elimination of Wolbachia pipientis by Doxycycline In Vitro Increases following Drug Withdrawal
22 Feb 2006
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Wolbachia pipientis is an obligate intracellular bacterium within the family Anaplasmataceae that infects many terrestrial arthropods and arthropod-transmitted nematodes (filariae). Several filarial species are major human pathogens, and antibiotics with activity against Wolbachia offer a promising new therapeutic approach, since the adult worms are relatively refractory to conventional anthelmintics but depend...
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