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Coherently, increasing information became available about molecular mechanisms used by this host to cope with microbial infections but few of them dealt with oxidative stress. In this work, we addressed the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by the immune system of <jats:italic>G. mellonella<\/jats:italic> to resist against <jats:italic>Salmonella enterica<\/jats:italic>, an intracellular pathogen responsible for a wide range of infections. We confirmed that <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic> was pathogen for <jats:italic>G. mellonella<\/jats:italic> and showed that it had to reach a minimal bacterial load within the hemolymph to kill the larvae. ROS production by <jats:italic>G. mellonella<\/jats:italic> was revealed by the virulence defects of <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic> mutants lacking catalases\/peroxiredoxins or cytoplasmic superoxide dismutases, both strains being highly sensitive to these oxidants. Finally, we used bacterial transcriptional fusions to demonstrate that hydrogen peroxide (H<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>O<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>) was produced in the hemolymph of <jats:italic>Galleria<\/jats:italic> during infection and sensed by <jats:italic>S. enterica<\/jats:italic>. In line with this observation, the H<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>O<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>-dependent regulator OxyR was found to be required for bacterial virulence in the larvae. 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