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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2007, p. 5657-5659, Vol. 73, No. 17
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00908-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Alternative Host Model To Evaluate Aeromonas Virulence{triangledown}

Romain Froquet,1 Nathalie Cherix,1 Sarah E. Burr,2 Joachim Frey,2 Silvia Vilches,3 Juan M. Tomas,3 and Pierre Cosson1*

Université de Genève, Centre Médical Universitaire, Département de Physiologie et Métabolisme Cellulaire, 1 rue Michel Servet, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland,1 Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Universität Bern, Länggassstrasse 122, Postfach, CH-3001 Berne, Switzerland,2 Departamento de Microbiologia, Facultad de Biologia, Universidad de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, 08071 Barcelona, Spain3

Received 23 April 2007/ Accepted 26 June 2007

Bacterial virulence can only be assessed by confronting bacteria with a host. Here, we present a new simple assay to evaluate Aeromonas virulence, making use of Dictyostelium amoebae as an alternative host model. This assay can be modulated to assess virulence of very different Aeromonas species.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Université de Genève, Centre Médical Universitaire, Département de Physiologie et Métabolisme Cellulaire, 1 rue Michel Servet, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland. Phone: (41) 22 379 5293. Fax: (41) 22 379 5338. E-mail: Pierre.Cosson{at}medecine.unige.ch

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 6 July 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2007, p. 5657-5659, Vol. 73, No. 17
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00908-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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