Study sheds new light on river blindness parasite

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

The team found that a bacterium inside the worm acts as a 'disguise' for the parasite, resulting in the immune system reacting to it in an ineffective way. The bacteria protect the worm from the...

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