Of mice, flies - and men? Comparing fungal infection models for large-scale screening efforts

• Main Authors: Sascha Brunke (Author), Jessica Quintin (Author), Lydia Kasper (Author), Ilse D. Jacobsen (Author), Martin E. Richter (Author), Ekkehard Hiller (Author), Tobias Schwarzmüller (Author), Christophe d'Enfert (Author), Karl Kuchler (Author), Steffen Rupp (Author), Bernhard Hube (Author), Dominique Ferrandon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The Company of Biologists, 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Studying infectious diseases requires suitable hosts for experimental in vivo infections. Recent years have seen the advent of many alternatives to murine infection models. However, the use of non-mammalian models is still controversial because it is often unclear how well findings from these system...