A Caenorhabditis elegans Host Model Correlates with Invasive Disease Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Recovered during an Outbreak in Neonatal Intensive Care | Zendy

Kaiyu Wu | Zendy; Andrew E. Simor | Zendy; Mary Vearncombe | Zendy; JoAnn McClure | Zendy; Kunyan Zhang | Zendy

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A Caenorhabditis elegans Host Model Correlates with Invasive Disease Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Recovered during an Outbreak in Neonatal Intensive Care

Author(s) -

Kaiyu Wu,

Andrew E. Simor,

Mary Vearncombe,

JoAnn McClure,

Kunyan Zhang

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1918-1493

pISSN - 1712-9532

DOI - 10.1155/2012/543817

Subject(s) - outbreak , caenorhabditis elegans , staphylococcus aureus , host (biology) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , disease , virology , medicine , bacteria , genetics , gene

Caenorhabditis elegans has previously been used as a host model to determine the virulence of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. In the present study, methicillin-susceptible S aureus (MSSA) strains associated with an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) were investigated using the C elegans model.

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