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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Bordetella pertussis
SUBMITTER: Craig Cummings
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3263 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Journal of bacteriology 20110708 18
Serological studies of patients with pertussis and the identification of antigenic Bordetella pertussis proteins support the hypothesis that B. pertussis perceives an iron starvation cue and expresses multiple iron source utilization systems in its natural human host environment. Furthermore, previous studies using a murine respiratory tract infection model showed that several of these B. pertussis iron systems are required for colonization and persistence and are differentially expressed over t ...[more]