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Abstract
In the gastrointestinal tract, the tug of war for iron may provide a new way to vaccinate. Recent work shows that immunizing mice with siderophores (small molecules that microbes produce to capture iron) foils pathogen colonization and may instead allow a commensal to expand.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28139374 PMCID: PMC5336408 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.01.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN: 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079