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Bacterial growth in amniotic fluid is dependent on the iron-availability and the activity of bacterial iron-uptake system.
Journal of Korean medical science - 1 Jun 2004
Ahn Young-Joon, Park Sang-Kee, Oh Jae-Wook, Sun Hui Yu, Shin Sung-Heui
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, the relationship among iron-availability, antibacterial activity, role of meconium as an iron source and the activity of bacterial iron-uptake system (IUS) for bacterial growth in amniotic fluid (AF) were investigated. Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 and its streptonigrin-resistant (SR) mutant with defective IUS were used as the test strains. The growth of S. aureus in AF was stimulated...
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