2. Academic Validation
  3. Nematode symbiont for Photorhabdus asymbiotica

Nematode symbiont for Photorhabdus asymbiotica

  • Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Oct;12(10):1562-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1210.060464.
John G Gerrard 1,  Susan A Joyce,  David J Clarke,  Richard H ffrench-Constant,  Graeme R Nimmo,  David F M Looke,  Edward J Feil,  Lucy Pearce,  Nick R Waterfield
Affiliations

Affiliation

  • 1 Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia. jgerrard@bigpond.net.au
PMID: 17176572 DOI: 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.

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