Assessing phage therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa using a Galleria mellonella infection model

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Beeton, Michael L.
Alves, D. R.
Enright, M. C.
Jenkins, A. T. A.
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2015Type
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Elsevier
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0924-8579
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The Galleria mellonella infection model was used to assess the in vivo efficacy of phage therapy against laboratory and clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In a first series of experiments, Galleria were infected with the laboratory strain P. aeruginosa PAO1 and were treated with varying multiplicity of infection (MOI) of phages either 2 h post-infection (treatment) or 2 h pre-infection (prevention) via injection into the haemolymph. To address the kinetics of infection, larvae were bled over a period of 24 h for quantification of bacteria and phages. Survival rates at 24 h when infected with 10 cells/larvae were greater in the prevention versus treatment model (47% vs. 40%, MOI = 10; 47% vs. 20%, MOI = 1; and 33% vs. 7%, MOI = 0.1). This pattern held true when 100 cells/larvae were used (87% vs. 20%, MOI = 10; 53% vs. 13%, MOI = 1; 67% vs. 7%, MOI = 0.1). By 24 h post-infection, phages kept bacterial cell numbers in the haemolymph 1000-fold lower than in the non-treated group. In a second series of experiments using clinical strains to further validate the prevention model, phages protected Galleria when infected with both a bacteraemia (0% vs. 85%) and a cystic fibrosis (80% vs. 100%) isolate. Therefore, this study validates the use of G. mellonella as a simple, robust and cost-effective model for initial in vivo examination of P. aeruginosa-targeted phage therapy, which may be applied to other pathogens with similarly low infective doses.
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International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
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Beeton M. L., Alves. D. R., Enright M. C. and Jenkins A. T. A. (2016) ' Assessing phage therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa using a Galleria mellonella infection model', International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 46 (2), pp.196-200
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This article was published in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents on 25th May 2015 (online), available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2015.04.005
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