The wax moth Galleria mellonella as a novel model system to study Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli pathogenesis

Virulence. 2017 Nov 17;8(8):1894-1899. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2016.1256537. Epub 2017 Oct 19.

Authors

Rie Jønsson^{1

2}, Carsten Struve², Håvard Jenssen¹, Karen A Krogfelt²

Affiliations

¹ a Department of Science and Environment , Roskilde University , Roskilde , Denmark.
² b Department of Microbiology and Infection Control , Statens Serum Institut , Copenhagen , Denmark.

No abstract available

Keywords: Galleria mellonella; bacterial pathogenesis; diarrhea; infection; invertebrate; model.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Disease Models, Animal
Escherichia coli / genetics
Escherichia coli / pathogenicity*
Escherichia coli / physiology
Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
Escherichia coli Infections / mortality
Humans
Larva / microbiology
Larva / physiology
Moths / microbiology*
Moths / physiology
Virulence