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1Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen 9713AV, The Netherlands.
Trends in Microbiology
|May 21, 2013
Abstract:
The susceptibility of Caenorhabditis elegans to different virulent phenotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa makes the worms an excellent model for studying host-pathogen interactions. Including the recently described liquid killing, five different killing assays are now available offering superb possibilities for performing high-throughput screens for novel antibiotics using a whole-body infection system.
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