Iron and Infection
Subtitle: Molecular, Physiological and Clinical Aspects
Contributors: D. J. Bullen (Editor); E. Griffiths (Editor)
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: Wiley
Published: May 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780471939405
Subjects: Biochemistry; Infectious & contagious diseases; Medical microbiology & virology; Nutrition; Medical; Infectious Diseases; Nutrition And Public Health; Science/Mathematics; Medical / Nursing; Microbiology; Microbial metabolism; Immunology; Medical / Microbiology; Bacterial diseases; Iron; Iron proteins; Metabolism
First sentence: It is now over fifty years since Schade and Caroline first discovered that specific iron-binding proteins, present in blood and in the whites of eggs, would inhibit the growth of certain bacteria (Schade and Caroline, 1944, 1946).