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A sensitive bacterial-growth-based test reveals how intestinal Bacteroides meet their porphyrin requirement

BACKGROUND: Bacteroides sp. are dominant constituents of the human and animal intestinal microbiota require porphyrins (i.e., protoporphyrin IX or iron-charged heme) for normal growth. The highly stimulatory effect of porphyrins on Bacteroides growth lead us to propose their use as a potential deter...

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Autores principales: Halpern, David, Gruss, Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26715069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-015-0616-0