Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Galleria mellonella are resistant to Pneumocystis murina infection.
- Journal:
- Mycopathologia
- Year:
- 2011
- Authors:
- Fuchs, Beth Burgwyn et al.
- Affiliation:
- Massachusetts General Hospital · United States
Abstract
Studying Pneumocystis has proven to be a challenge from the perspective of propagating a significant amount of the pathogen in a facile manner. The study of several fungal pathogens has been aided by the use of invertebrate model hosts. Our efforts to infect the invertebrate larvae Galleria mellonella with Pneumocystis proved futile since P. murina neither caused disease nor was able to proliferate within G. mellonella. It did, however, show that the pathogen could be rapidly cleared from the host.
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