Bacterial Species

Acinetobacter baumannii [1-3] pleuropneumoniae causes infection in pigs [4] Bacillus cereus [5, 6] B. thuringiensis [7-9] B. weihenstephanensis [6] Brucella melitensis [10] B. suis [10] Burkholderia ambifaria [11] B. cenocepacia [12] B. cepacia [13] B. mallei [10, 14] B. oklahomensis [15] B. pseudomallei [10, 15] B. thailandensis [15] [16] [17] Cronobacter sakazakii human pathogen [18] [19] Enterococcus faecalis [20] E. faecium [21] [22-24] [10, 25] [26] [27, 28] Lactobacillus acidophilus [29] gormanii [30] L. pneumophila [31, 32] Listeria monocytogenes [33-36] [37, 38] [38-42] Serovar Typhimurium [43]

Models tested in G. Mellonella Bacterial Species (Contd.)

SalmonellaTyphimurium [44] [45, 46] Staphylococcus aureus [47, 48] Stenotrophomonas maltophilia [49] Streptococcus pneumoniae [50, 51] S. pyogenes [52] Taylorella species [53] Vibrio anguillarum [54] Xenorhabdus nematophila [55, 56] [57] [57] Y. pseudotuberculosis [57, 58]

Fungal Species

Aspergillus flavus [59] Aspergillus fumigatus [60, 61] Aspergillus terreus [62] Candida africana [63] Candida albicans [64-69] Candida glabrata [69] Candida krusei [69, 70] Candida metapsilosis [71] Candida orthopsilosis [71] Candida parapsilosis, [69, 71] Candida tropicalis human pathogen [69, 72] Conidiobolus coronatus insect pathogen [73, 74] Cryptococcus gattii human pathogen [75] Cryptococcus neoformans human pathogen [76-78]

Models tested in G. Mellonella Fungal Species (Contd.)

Fusarium [79] Fusarium oxysporum [80] Histoplasma capsulatum Human pathogen [81] Madurella mycetomatis plant pathogen [82] Metarhizium robertsii [83] Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Paracoccidioides lutzii [84] Paracoccidioides lutzii human pathogen [81] Penicillium marneffei human pathogen [85] Pneumocystis murina [86] Rhizopus [87] Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [68] Scedosporium aurantiacum, [88] T. asteroides [89] T. inkin [89] Trichosporon asahii, [89]

Virus’

Bovine herpes simplex virus-1 (BHSV-1) [90] densonucleosis virus [91] Invertebrate iridescent virus 6 [92] iridovirus [91] mycovirus [93] Nodamura virus [94] Tipula iridescent virus TIV [95, 96]

Nematode Parasites

Steinernema carpocapsae [97, 98]

Models tested in G. Mellonella Toxins

Aspergillus fumigatus (Fumagillin) [99] Bacillus cereus [5] Bacillus Thuringiensis (Cry9) [100, 101] Beauveria bassiana [102] Beauveria bassiana, (Bb70p) [103] Conidiobolus coronatus (coronatin-1) [74] Enterococcus faecalis [104] Hirsutella thompsonii [105] Photorhabdus luminescens (PirA2B2 ) [106] Pseudomonas aeruginosa [107, 108]

Pseudomonas fluorescens (Fit toxin ) [109] Serratia marcescens [46] Vibrio e (cholera toxin) [110] Xenorhabdus bovienii [111] Xenorhabdus budapestensis (HIP57) [112] Xenorhabdus species (XeGroEL) [113]

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