Drosophila melanogaster as an Animal Model for the Study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Infections In Vivo (original) (raw)
Figure 1
PAO1 (pCHAP6656) infection of the Drosophila crop.
(A) Plating of bacteria recovered from infected flies on Pseudomonas isolation agar (PIA) +/− Gm 30 (µg/ml) indicated that pCHAP6656 was not lost up to 48 h postinfection. (B) Merged image of brightfield and red fluorescence images from PAO1-infected crops (40x). Red fluorescence images of infected crops at (C) 63x and (D) 100x objectives. White arrows indicate the presence of large bacterial aggregates. Scale bars indicate 200 µM. At least three infected crops were examined from three separate infections and representative images are shown.