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Caenorhabditis elegans mounts a p38 MAPK pathway‐mediated defence toCutibacterium acnesinfection
16 Jun 2020
Abstract excerpt
Cutibacterium acnes is capable of inducing inflammation in acne and can lead to a chronic prostatic infection. The diverse pathogenicity among different strains of C. acnes has been presented, but simple appropriate animal models for the evaluation of this bacterium are lacking. In this study, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was used as an invertebrate infection model. We revealed that C. acnes type strain...
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