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Acinetobacter baumannii response to host-mediated zinc limitation requires the transcriptional regulator Zur.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2014
Mortensen Brittany L, Rathi Subodh, Chazin Walter J, Skaar Eric P
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Acinetobacter baumannii is a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units, and the increasing rates of antibiotic resistance make treating these infections challenging. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop new antimicrobials to treat A. baumannii infections. One potential therapeutic option is to target bacterial systems involved in maintaining appropriate metal...
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