Iron and infection: The heart of the matter

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 325-330

  Bullen, John J ^a,b   Rogers, Henry J ^a   Spalding, Paul B ^b   Ward, Charles G ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Iron; Oxygen; Sepsis; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SUBSTITUTE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DIASPIRIN CROSSLINKED HEMOGLOBIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IRON;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOXIA; INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; IRON OVERLOAD; LEUKEMIA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 13644251505     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsim.2004.11.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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