Hospital infections, animal models and alternatives

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 561-568

  Seabra, R ^a   Bhogal, N ^a  

^a RUSSELL AND BURCH HOUSE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; SALICYLIC ACID;

ALFALFA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETER INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROORGANISM; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANAGRELLUS REDIVIVUS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REINFECTION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SILKWORM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS; URINARY CATHETER; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 67349240920     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-008-0680-6     Document Type: Review

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