Use of the Galleria mellonella caterpillar as a model host to study the role of the type III secretion system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2404-2413

  Miyata, Sachiko ^a,b   Casey, Monika ^c   Frank, Dara W ^c   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a,b   Drenkard, Eliana ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN EXOS; PROTEIN EXOT; PROTEIN EXOU; PROTEIN EXOY; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM EFFECTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATERPILLAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE PSCD; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOTHS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0242500352     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.5.2404-2413.2003     Document Type: Article

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