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Last week we published an evaluation by Gabriele Sorci of the Université de Bourgogne, on a paper in The American Naturalist titled “Hidden consequences of living in a wormy world: nematode-induced immune suppression facilitates tuberculosis invasion in African buffalo.”

African buffalo can be infected by nematodes and tuberculosis. The nematodes suppress the host T_h1-type immune response, which would otherwise clear the bacterial infection. Nematodes can therefore influence the spread of diseases such as TB in the wild, and Gabriele expands on this interaction in this video he kindly recorded for us: