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SUBMITTER: Costa LF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5140723 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM 20161013 8
Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium is able to expand in the lumen of the inflamed intestine through mechanisms that have not been fully resolved. Here we utilized streptomycin-pretreated mice and dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-treated mice to investigate how pathways for S. Typhimurium iron acquisition contribute to pathogen expansion in the inflamed intestine. Competitive infection with an iron uptake-proficient S. Typhimurium strain and mutant strains lacking tonB feoB, feoB, tonB or iroN ...[more]