The fruit fly as a meeting place for microbes.
Many infectious diseases of humans are caused by polymicrobial communities, but there are few in vivo models to study such communities. In a recent issue of PLoS Pathogens, Sibley and colleagues (Sibley et al., 2008a) report the development of a fruit fly infection model to investigate polymicrobial interactions and their effects on the host.
Vial
Ludovic
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INRS-Institut Armand Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada.
Déziel
Eric
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D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans