title: Battling the Bite: Tradeoffs in Immunity to Insect-Borne Pathogens.
abstract: Effective pathogens are successful, by definition, because they can defeat our immune response. Pingen et al. (2016) in this issue of Immunity demonstrate that some mosquito-transmitted viruses depend upon a strong host immune response triggered by the innate immune response to the bite to promote dissemination through the body.
authors.affiliation: Stanford Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford, CA 94305-5124, USA. Electronic address: dschneid@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: David Samuel
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D007313:Insecta / Q000276:immunology*