Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Defining the early stages of intestinal colonisation by whipworms

  • María A. Duque-Correa,
  • David Goulding,
  • Faye H. Rodgers,
  • J. Andrew Gillis,
  • Claire Cormie,
  • Kate A. Rawlinson,
  • Allison J. Bancroft,
  • Hayley M. Bennett,
  • Magda E. Lotkowska,
  • Adam J. Reid,
  • Anneliese O. Speak,
  • Paul Scott,
  • Nicholas Redshaw,
  • Charlotte Tolley,
  • Catherine McCarthy,
  • Cordelia Brandt,
  • Catherine Sharpe,
  • Caroline Ridley,
  • Judit Gali Moya,
  • Claudia M. Carneiro,
  • Tobias Starborg,
  • Kelly S. Hayes,
  • Nancy Holroyd,
  • Mandy Sanders,
  • David J. Thornton,
  • Richard K. Grencis,
  • Matthew Berriman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29334-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Whipworms are large parasites causing chronic disease in humans and other mammals. Here, the authors show how larvae create tunnels inside the gut lining and reveal the early host response to infection via Isg15 in mice and murine caecaloids.