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Intracellular infection of the C. elegans intestine by microsporidia
Balla et al. show that a strain of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans from Hawaii is able to clear intracellular infection by its natural microsporidian pathogen Nematocida parisii. The top image labels N. parisii inside the C. elegans intestine, using fluorescent in situ hybridization staining the pathogen in red and DAPI staining DNA in blue—lower images show alternate color schemes for the intestinal infection.
Image Credit: Keir Balla
Citation: (2015) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 11(2) February 2015. PLoS Pathog 11(2): ev11.i02. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v11.i02
Published: February 27, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Balla. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Balla et al. show that a strain of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans from Hawaii is able to clear intracellular infection by its natural microsporidian pathogen Nematocida parisii. The top image labels N. parisii inside the C. elegans intestine, using fluorescent in situ hybridization staining the pathogen in red and DAPI staining DNA in blue—lower images show alternate color schemes for the intestinal infection.
Image Credit: Keir Balla