| Literature DB >> 14742574 |
Maike Bolm1, Wouter T M Jansen, Ralf Schnabel, Gursharan S Chhatwal.
Abstract
Recently, we reported that Streptococcus pyogenes kills Caenorhabditis elegans by the use of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Here we show that diverse streptococcal species cause death of C. elegans larvae in proportion to the level of H2O2 produced. H2O2 may mask the effects of other pathogenicity factors of catalase-negative bacteria in the C. elegans infection model.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 14742574 PMCID: PMC321644 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.2.1192-1194.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441