This manuscript describes the intravesical administration of uropathogenic bacteria with a lux operon to induce a urinary tract infection in mice and subsequent longitudinal in vivo analysis of the bacterial load using bioluminescence imaging.
Luyts, N., Vande Velde, G., Vanneste, M., De Bruyn, H., Janssens, A., Verstraeten, N., Voets, T., Everaerts, W. Longitudinal Follow-Up of Urinary Tract Infections and Their Treatment in Mice using Bioluminescence Imaging. J. Vis. Exp. (172), e62614, doi:10.3791/62614 (2021).