Iron Acquisition in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is a host-adapted pathogen that evolved from the environmental bacterium M. avium subsp. hominissuis through gene loss and gene acquisition. Growth of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the laboratory is enhanced by supplementation of the media with the i...

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Main Authors: Wang, Joyce, Moolji, Jalal, Dufort, Alex, Staffa, Alfredo, Domenech, Pilar, Reed, Michael B., Behr, Marcel A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810606/