Wolbachia: The Bacteria That Could Change Everything

Bill Gates is investing in this research project. wolbachia may bring revolution in prevention of spread of dengue fever. Wolbachia is an obligate intracellular maternally transmitted, gram-negative bacterium which forms a spectrum of endosymbiotic relationships from parasitism to obligatory mutualism in a wide range of arthropods and onchocercid nematodes, respectively.