An Indian-origin researcher at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore and his colleagues have found that mast cells, which can help the body respond to bacteria and pathogens, also apparently sound the alarm around viruses delivered by a mosquito bite.
"It appears the mast cells are activated and call immune system cells to the skin where they clear infection, which limits the spread of infection in the host," said lead researcher Ashley St. John, a Research Fellow with Duke-NUS in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Duke Department of Pathology in Durham, N.C. Full story
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