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Caenorhabditis elegans is a model host for Salmonella typhimurium.
Current biology : CB - 30 Nov 2000
Labrousse A, Chauvet S, Couillault C, Kurz C L, Ewbank J J
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The idea of using simple, genetically tractable host organisms to study the virulence mechanisms of pathogens dates back at least to the work of Darmon and Depraitère [1]. They proposed using the predatory amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum as a model host, an approach that has proved to be valid in the case of the intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila [2]. Research from the Ausubel laboratory has clearly...
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