Targeting bacterial transferrin and lactoferrin receptors for vaccines

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A substantial disease burden in vertebrates is due to Gram-negative bacteria that exclusively inhabit the upper respiratory or genitourinary tracts of their hosts and rely on directly acquiring iron from the host iron-binding glycoproteins through surface receptor proteins. The receptors enable these bacteria to proliferate independently from their neighbors on the mucosal surface and during invasive infection of...

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