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Marion Le Coadic1, Marianne Simon, Anna Marchetti, Dieter Ebert, Pierre Cosson.
Abstract
We show that Daphnia magna can be used to assess acute virulence of pathogens relevant to human health, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Photorhabdus asymbiotica. Analysis of bacterial mutants suggests that P. aeruginosa uses similar mechanisms to infect Daphnia and other hosts.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22081563 PMCID: PMC3255754 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06278-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Environ Microbiol ISSN: 0099-2240 Impact factor: 4.792