Comparative virulence of urinary and bloodstream isolates of extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli in a Galleria mellonella model

Virulence

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 145-151

  Ciesielczuk, Holly ^a,b   Betts, Jonathon ^a   Phee, Lynnette ^a   Doumith, Michel ^b   Hope, Russell ^b   Woodford, Neil ^a,b   Wareham, David W ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ExPEC; Galleria mellonella; Resistance; Sequence type; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MELANIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; NITROFURANTOIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEMOCILLIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL DAMAGE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LARVA; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL; UROSEPSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LARVA; MELANINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84926619517     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/21505594.2014.988095     Document Type: Article

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