The battle for iron between bacterial pathogens and their vertebrate hosts

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Skaar, Eric P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; DNA REPLICATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IRON DEPLETION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IRON; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 77958143617     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000949     Document Type: Article

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