Hi there. A watcher and first time poster. I did a search for Wolbachia in this comm and only turned up not one but TWO ENTRIES that teased me by offering more info on Wolbahcia later, but never delivered. So here's my humble offering.

I'm reading Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life which has been a great book for a person with more ( Read more... )

Parasitic filarial nematodes, and their larval stages, are responsible for heartworm, filarial elephantiasis,river blindness, loa loa, and Strongyloidiasis. Strongyloides is an unusual one - it infects baboons, chimps & humans, & it's equally happy as a parasite and as a free living nematode ( Read more... )