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. 2016 Jun 21;44(6):1251-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.06.008.

Battling the Bite: Tradeoffs in Immunity to Insect-Borne Pathogens

David Samuel Schneider  1
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Battling the Bite: Tradeoffs in Immunity to Insect-Borne Pathogens

David Samuel Schneider. Immunity. .
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Abstract

Effective pathogens are successful, by definition, because they can defeat our immune response. Pingen et al. (2016) in this issue of Immunity demonstrate that some mosquito-transmitted viruses depend upon a strong host immune response triggered by the innate immune response to the bite to promote dissemination through the body.

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