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Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for studying Cronobacter sakazakii ATCC BAA‐894 pathogenesis
24 Mar 2011
Abstract excerpt
Cronobacter sakazakii is occasionally associated with food-borne illness seen in neonates and infants with weakened immune system. It can cause meningitis, local necrotizing enterocolitis and systemic bacteremia leading to infant mortality rates upto 33-80%. With the aim of investigating whether C. sakazakii is also a pathogen of the model organism C. elegans, we have performed killing assays and monitored the...
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