Wolbachia pipientis

Wolbachia pipientis

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Wolbachia pipientis are obligate intracellular bacteria that replicate exclusively inside host cells. Under no conditions have Wolbachia been cultured outside of the host animal environment. As a result, Wolbachia are naturally cultured by rearing infected insects in a laboratory or in vitro cultivated in cells of insect and mammalian cell lines (see video). Wolbachia can survive, but not replicate, outside the host cytosol in insect cell medium and within insect hemolymph.