Methods for using Galleria mellonella as a model host to study fungal pathogenesis

Virulence

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 475-482

  Fuchs, Beth Burgwyn ^a   O'Brien, Elizabeth ^a   Khoury, Joseph B El ^a   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Filamentation; Fungal pathogenesis; Galleria mellonella; Infection model; Model host; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HOST; LEPIDOPTERA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79251514614     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.1.6.12985     Document Type: Article

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