Article
Salmonella typhi iron uptake mutants are attenuated in mice.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 1994
Furman M, Fica A, Saxena M, Di Fabio J L, Cabello F C
Abstract excerpt
Iron starvation interferes drastically with the multiplication and virulence of Salmonella typhi mutants defective in enterochelin synthesis or enterochelin transport. Growth of these mutants is inhibited in the presence of human sera and unsaturated transferrin and is restored by fully saturated...
Topics
- Animals
- Enterobactin
- Female
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Iron
- Mice
- Mutation
- Salmonella typhi
- Transferrin
- Virulence