Nematode Symbiont forPhotorhabdus asymbiotica
Open Access
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (10) , 1562-1564
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1210.060464
Abstract
Photorhabdus asymbiotica is an emerging bacterial pathogen that causes locally invasive soft tissue and disseminated bacteremic infections in the United States and Australia. Although the source of infection was previously unknown, we report that the bacterium is found in a symbiotic association with an insect-pathogenic soil nematode of the genus Heterorhabditis.Keywords
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