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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 199, Issue 4, Pages 532-536Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/596511
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- National Institutes of Health [AI63084]
- Ellison Medical Foundation
- Cubist Pharmaceuticals
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In the present study, we demonstrated the utility of the non-mammalian model system Galleria mellonella for studying the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus infection. By use of clinical and laboratory strains that had been exposed to vancomycin, we showed that both agr functional status and vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration are determinants associated with the virulence of S. aureus in G. mellonella. These results show that G. mellonella can be effectively used to facilitate the in vivo study of S. aureus virulence and, more specifically, the relationship between antibiotic drug resistance and the pathogenesis of infection.
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