“Limiting access to iron decreases infection of Atlantic salmon SHK-1 cells with bacterium Piscirickettsia salmonis”

Abstract Background Vertebrate hosts limit the availability of iron to microbial pathogens in order to nutritionally starve the invaders. The impact of iron deficiency induced by the iron chelator deferoxamine mesylate (DFO) was investigated in Atlantic salmon SHK-1 cells infected with the facultati...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo Díaz, José Troncoso, Eva Jakob, Stanko Skugor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Veterinary Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-021-02853-6