Affiliation:
1. Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Abstract
Among the unfavorable conditions bacteria encounter within the host is restricted access to essential trace metals such as iron. To overcome iron deficiency, bacteria deploy multiple strategies to scavenge iron from host tissues, with abundant examples of iron acquisition systems being implicated in bacterial pathogenesis.
Funder
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
American Heart Association
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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