The Battle for Iron Between Bacterial Pathogens and Their Vertebrate Hosts

Overview

Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2010 Aug 17

PMID 20711357

Citations 395

Authors

Eric P Skaar

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