Galleria mellonella as an alternative infection model for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1516-1522

  Champion, Olivia L ^a   Cooper, Ian A M ^b   James, Sarah L ^a   Ford, Donna ^b   Karlyshev, Andrey ^c,d   Wren, Brendan W ^c   Duffield, Melanie ^b   Oyston, Petra C F ^b   Titball, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LARVA; MOTH; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOTHS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 66849134757     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.026823-0     Document Type: Article

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