An optimal method of iron starvation of the obligate intracellular pathogen, Chlamydia trachomatis

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2011, Pages

  Thompson, Christopher C ^a   Carabeo, Rey A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bipyridyl; Chlamydia; Deferoxamine; Iron; Persistence; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862982813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00020     Document Type: Article

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