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Longitudinal Follow-Up of Urinary Tract Infections and Their Treatment in Mice using Bioluminescence Imaging
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June 14, 2021
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1Laboratory of Ion Channel Research (LICR), VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Leuven, Belgium & Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine,KU Leuven, 2Biomedical MRI, Department of Imaging & Pathology,KU Leuven, 3Belgium & KU Leuven Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics,VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Leuven, 4Laboratory of Experimental Urology, Department of Development and Regeneration,KU Leuven
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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.
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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).
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