A nutritional immunity blockade controls extracellular bacterial replication in Legionella pneumophila infections.
A. Torres-Escobar, A. Wilkins, M. D. Juarez-Rodriguez, M. Circu, B. Latimer, A.-M. Dragoi, S. S. Ivanov
This study shows that Legionella pneumophila can replicate extracellularly when host nutritional immunity is blocked, particularly through iron overload or absence of Transferrin.
bioRxiv · Jan 21, 2024Microbiology