Pseudomonas aeruginosa disrupts Caenorhabditis elegans iron homeostasis, causing a hypoxic response and death.

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Published in Cell Host Microbe on April 17, 2013

Authors

Natalia V Kirienko1, Daniel R Kirienko, Jonah Larkins-Ford, Carolina Wählby, Gary Ruvkun, Frederick M Ausubel

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1: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

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