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Studying Oxidative Stress Caused by the Mitis Group Streptococci in Caenorhabditis elegans
Published on: March 23, 2019
Hydrogen peroxide-mediated killing of Caenorhabditis elegans: a common feature of different streptococcal species
Maike Bolm1, Wouter T M Jansen, Ralf Schnabel
1GBF--German Research Centre for Biotechnology, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. mkb@gbf.de
Infection and Immunity
|January 27, 2004
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.

