Evaluation of zebrafish as a model to study the pathogenesis of the opportunistic pathogen Cronobacter turicensis

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Fehr, Alexander ^a   Eshwar, Athmanya K ^a   Neuhauss, Stephan C F ^a   Ruetten, Maja ^a   Lehner, Angelika ^a   Vaughan, Lloyd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cronobacter turicensis; Pathogenesis; Zebrafish model

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; POLYMYXIN B; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BLOOD FLOW; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONOBACTER TURICENSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETHALITY; MACROPHAGE; MICROINJECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YOLK SAC; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRONOBACTER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NEWBORN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CRONOBACTER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84952924065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2015.29     Document Type: Article

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