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Immune factor of bacterial origin protects ticks against host skin microbes

2020-04-11

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<h4>Summary</h4> Hard ticks are blood-feeding arthropods that carry and transmit microbes to their vertebrate hosts 1 . Tick-borne disease cases have been on the rise over the last several decades, drawing much-needed attention to the molecular interplay between transmitted pathogens and their human hosts. However, far less is known about how ticks control their own microbes, which is critical for understanding...

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887f71cb-3755-541b-915a-8c2a6f47d26e
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10.1101/2020.04.10.036376
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