Mother knows worms: Microbes pass on antiviral defense
Preview of work showing helminth-induced remodeling of maternal microbiota can program offspring’s antiviral immunity through a microbiota-derived metabolite that enhances lung IFN-I responses
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Maternal helminth exposure may confer offspring protection against respiratory viruses,
but the immune pathways and mediators are not well known. In this issue, Fernandes
et al. demonstrate that helmi...