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Galleria mellonella larva infection by Yersinia enterocolitica
Yersinia enterocolitica strain W22703 is a human enteropathogen that is able to successfully infect invertebrates. Upon oral application to larvae of the Greater wax moth Galleria mellonella, Y. enterocolitica (light blue) colonizes the gut (right) and interacts with the epithelial cell layer. It enters the hemolymph of the insect (left) within the first 24 hours of infection where the pathogen massively proliferates due to readily available substrates that fuel its re-programmed metabolism. Bacterial cells were stained by a fluorescent Yersinia-antibody.
Sänger et al. PLOS Pathogens 2022
Image Credit: Philipp-Albert Sänger, Marcus Pfau
Citation: (2022) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 18(11) December 2022. PLoS Pathog 18(11): ev18.i11. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v18.i11
Published: December 7, 2022
Copyright: © 2022 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Yersinia enterocolitica strain W22703 is a human enteropathogen that is able to successfully infect invertebrates. Upon oral application to larvae of the Greater wax moth Galleria mellonella, Y. enterocolitica (light blue) colonizes the gut (right) and interacts with the epithelial cell layer. It enters the hemolymph of the insect (left) within the first 24 hours of infection where the pathogen massively proliferates due to readily available substrates that fuel its re-programmed metabolism. Bacterial cells were stained by a fluorescent Yersinia-antibody.
Sänger et al. PLOS Pathogens 2022
Image Credit: Philipp-Albert Sänger, Marcus Pfau