Molecular strain typing of Wolbachia infection from Indian mosquitoes using wsp gene

Mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal low genetic diversity in Culex quinquefasciatus from residential areas in Malaysia

“…Given that Wolbachia infection is commonly found in Asian Cx . quinquefasciatus populations (Kittayapong et al ., ; Ravikumar et al ., ), it is suggested that the low mitochondrial diversity observed in the present study may also have derived from Wolbachia infection.…”

Association of smoking, alcohol and NSAIDs use with expression of cag A and cag T genes of Helicobacter pylori in salivary samples of asymptomatic subjects

“…Hence, it could be deduced that H. pylori is present in the asymptomatic subjects but the virulent factors are expressed in a fraction of them. However, virulent strains may give rise to a plethora of gastric diseases when the suitable pathobiological conditions culminate in the gastric environment of the patients [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] .…”

Molecular diagnosis of Wolbachia endosymbiont from Iranian scorpion Hemiscorpius lepturus using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of 16S rDNA gene

“…Wolbachia induce reproductive manipulation in arthropod. So, it is usual to conclude that treatment of Wolbachia can reduce the population of their hosts (Ravikumar et al, 2011). Therefore, if infection of arthropods is proved, we can apply this bacterium for biological control of arthropod pests.…”

“…Wolbachia is vertically transmitted through the egg cytoplasm and they manipulate their hosts' reproduction in various ways (Ravikumar et al, 2011). These ways are feminization of genetic males (Rousset et al, 1992), parthenogenetic induction which results in development of unfertilized eggs (Stouthamer et al, 1993), the killing of male progeny from infected females (Hurst et al, 1999), and sperm-egg incompatibility (referred to as cytoplasmic incompatibility) (Bourtzis et al, 1996;Bram et al, 2011).…”

“…One of the fitness benefits of Wolbachia on its hosts is increasing the host resistance to infection with a range of pathogens (Bian et al, 2010;Moreira et al, 2009). Wolbachia cannot be cultured outside the host cells (O'Neill et al, 1992), and its potential application to the biocontrol of insect pests (Ravikumar et al, 2011) and vector-born diseases such as dangue fever (Inaki et al, 2011), malaria and filariasis (Chaoyang et al, 2009) have been studied.…”