Identification and characterization of Cronobacter iron acquisition systems

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6035-6050

  Grim, C J ^a,b   Kothary, M H ^a   Gopinath, G ^a   Jarvis, K G ^a,b   Jean Gilles Beaubrun, J ^a   McClelland, M ^c   Tall, B D ^a   Franco, A A ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAINS; CLINICAL SAMPLES; FERRIC IRON; FERROUS IRON; GENES ENCODING; HETEROLOGOUS SIDEROPHORES; IRON ACQUISITION; NATURAL HABITAT; ORTHOLOGOUS GENES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PLANT PATHOGEN; POWDERED INFANT FORMULAE; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; VIRULENCE POTENTIAL;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENE EXPRESSION; IRON OXIDES; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

IRON;

CARRIER PROTEIN; IRON; SIDEROPHORE;

BACTERIUM; ION; IRON; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASMID; SIDEROPHORE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL GENE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRONOBACTER; FOOD CONTROL; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRONOBACTER; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; IRON; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIDEROPHORES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84866150500     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01457-12     Document Type: Article

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