Rapidly escalating hepcidin and associated serum iron starvation are features of the acute response to typhoid infection in humans
Background: Iron is a key pathogenic determinant of many infectious diseases. Hepcidin, the hormone responsible for governing systemic iron homeostasis, is widely hypothesized to represent a key component of nutritional immunity through regulating the accessibility of iron to invading microorganisms...
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Public Library of Science
2015
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