Iron acquisition by Gram-positive bacterial pathogens

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1149-1156

  Brown, Jeremy S ^a   Holden, David W ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Gram positive pathogen; Iron; Siderophore

Indexed keywords

IRON; PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST; IRON ABSORPTION; IRON TRANSPORT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRON; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036754957     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(02)01640-4     Document Type: Review

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