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J Clin Microbiol. 1993 October; 31(10): 2812–2815.
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Effect of iron-limiting conditions on growth of clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii.
L A Actis, M E Tolmasky, L M Crosa, and J H Crosa
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201-3098.
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Abstract
Different clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii, typed by plasmid profile, were able to grow in iron-chelated medium by secreting iron-regulated siderophores. This iron-scavenging phenotype was associated with the production of iron-repressible catechol. Siderophore utilization bioassays showed the presence of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid in the growth medium, and neither enterobactin nor aerobactin was detected in culture supernatants obtained under iron-deficient conditions.
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