The fruit fly as a meeting place for microbes

Ludovic Vial; Eric Déziel

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2008.11.005

The fruit fly as a meeting place for microbes

Cell Host Microbe. 2008 Dec 11;4(6):505-7. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2008.11.005.

Authors

Ludovic Vial¹, Eric Déziel

Affiliation

¹ INRS-Institut Armand Frappier, Laval, Québec, Canada.

PMID: 19064248
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2008.11.005

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

Animals
Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Disease Models, Animal*
Drosophila melanogaster / microbiology*
Humans