Role of mammalian serum on in vitro growth of Mycobacterium avium

Biomedical Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 211, 1996, Pages 155-161

  Dhople, Arvind M ^a   Ibanez, Maria A ^a   Poirier, Timothy C ^a,b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Holmes Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

In vitro grow; Iron; Mycobacterium avium; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030496566     PISSN: 0961088X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. ANTOINE A. D. and Morrison N. E. 1968. Effect of iron nutrition on the bound hydroxylamine content of Mycobacterium phlei. J. Bact. 95 245-6.
2. BULLEN J. J. and Rogers H. J. 1969. Bacterial iron metabolism and immunity to Pasteurella septica and Escherichia coli. Nature 224 380-2.
3. KOCHAN I. 1969. Mechanism of tuberculostatis in mammalian serum. I. Role of transferrin in human serum tuberculostatis. J. Infect. Dis. 119 11-8.
4. KOCHAN I., Golden C. A and Bukovic J. A. 1969. Mechanism of tuberculostatis in mammalian serum. II. Induction of bacteriostatis in guinea pigs. J. Bact. 100 64-70.
5. KOCHAN I., Cahall D. L. and Golden C. A. 1971. Employment of tuberculostatis in serum-agar medium for the study of production and activity of mycobactin. Infect. Immun. 4 130-7.
6. KOSER S. A. 1968. Heme: sideramines or iron-transporting compounds. In Vitamin requirements in bacteria and yeast. pp 200-15. Edited by C. C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.
7. NEILANDS J. B. 1957. Some aspects of microbial iron metabolism. Bact. Rev. 21 101-11.
8. PRESIGN J. P., Slik W. Van Der and Riethorst A. 1971. Determination of serum iron and latent iron binding capacity. Clin. Chim. Acta 35 91-8.
9. SHADE A L. and Caroline L. 1944. Rav/ hen egg white and the role of iron in growth inhibition of Shigella dysenteriae, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces aureus. Science 100 14-5.
10. SHADE A. L. and Caroline L. 1946. An iron binding compound in human blood plasma. Science 104 340-1.
11. SNOW G. A. 1970. Mycobactins: iron-chelating growth factors from mycobacteria. Bact. Rev. 34 99-125.