What Is Wolbachia?

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Wolbachia essay Wolbachia is a form of bacteria that infects different insects and stops them from spreading disease to their offspring and infecting more people with that disease. For example wolbachia is used to prevent the disease zika from spreading and what they do is that they infect mosquitoes with wolbachia and that stops zika and stops them from infecting people and spreading it. what they are hoping happens is that when mosquitoes mate they will spread wolbachia to their offspring and it will stop the spread of zika. Wolbachia is also known as wolbachia pipientis which is what most people have heard wolbachia be called. Wolbachia is classified under Rickettsiales and it is a multicelled organism. Wolbachia is commonly used to

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