… The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, is an excellent model to … microbial symbioses within
the leech digestive tract, summarize known colonization factors of the dominant symbiont, A. …

… The aerobic culturing approach showed Aeromonas veronii (Proteobacteria), the known
leech symbiont, as the most dominant taxon followed by several Pseudomonas and Acidovorax …

… , or environmental, mechanisms) for establishing microbial symbioses, features that enable
these … basis of symbiont acquisition by the European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana. In the …

… Hirudo verbana, the European medicinal leech, maintains a gut community dominated by two
bacterial symbionts, … of gut and bladder symbioses in medicinal leech species from Europe …

… The pure strains isolated from the medicinal leeches (Hirudo verbana… , the bacteria present
in the samples of Hirudo verbana leech … about the bacteria found in the body of leeches were …

… orientalis and Hirudo verbena are the most thoroughly studied … complexity and greater
diversity with many novel symbionts. … The present study was intended to reveal the bacterial and …

… verbana (Hungarian leech). All three species are ectoparasites … It is supposed that symbionts
like A. veronii support the … of other bacteria in the crop of the leech [9]. In most parasitic …

… bacteria from the medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, with patient infections following leech …
rise of FQ resistance in a natural symbiont of the medicinal leech digestive tract. Our results …

… In the present study, an attempt was made to isolate cultivable bacteria from leech saliva
and their antibiotic assay in order to propose the broad-spectrum antibiotic for promising …

… of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana (often wrongly referred and sold in Europe as
Hirudo … our two receptors upon microbial challenge of the injured leech nerve cords. Gram-positive …