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. 2019 Apr 29;11(5):244. doi: 10.3390/toxins11050244

Figure 1.

Figure 1

‘Herd immunity’ in social insect colonies. (A) Fungal pathogens are expected to employ social interaction networks to spread from the infected to susceptible individuals and risk infecting the queens inside the colonies. (B) When high numbers of immune individuals through immunization exist inside the colonies, they will form an immune wall to cut off the spreading pathway and serve a colony-level protection.