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Menezes, Walter-Nuno et al. · 2025 FRONT. IMMUNOL. · OBESITY × ZIKV × AEDES
New publication · Frontiers in Immunology

Host obesity rewires mosquito gut metabolism and reduces ZIKV infection.

Our latest paper in Frontiers in Immunology shows that blood from diet-induced obese and diabetic mice remodels the Aedes aegypti midgut metabolic landscape and significantly lowers Zika virus infection rates — establishing a new immunometabolic axis at the heart of arbovirus transmission.

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