Pathogenic Bacteria Prefer Heme

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Bloodletting by physicians before the era of antibiotics may seem like a barbaric practice, but it may have been of some benefit to patients suffering from bacterial infections. In her Perspective, Rouault explains that most bacteria depend on a source of iron to grow and survive inside their animal hosts. A new study ( Skaar et al.) shows that the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus uses several...

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