Galleria mellonella as a model system to study Acinetobacter baumannii pathogenesis and therapeutics

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2605-2609

  Peleg, Anton Y ^a,b,c   Jara, Sebastian ^a   Monga, Divya ^a   Eliopoulos, George M ^b,c   Moellering Jr , Robert C ^b,c   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; MEROPENEM; TETRACYCLINE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER BAYLYI; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATERPILLAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; LETHALITY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOTHS; QUORUM SENSING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67049088288     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01533-08     Document Type: Article

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