Zebrafish as a novel vertebrate model to dissect enterococcal pathogenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4271-4279

  Prajsnar, Tomasz K ^a   Renshaw, Stephen A ^a   Ogryzko, Nikolay V ^a   Foster, Simon J ^a   Serror, Pascale ^b   Mesnagea, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LARVA; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84886778892     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00976-13     Document Type: Article

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