Iron and Infections: Back to the Future (EHA2024)
In this lecture from EHA2024, Prof Domenico Girelli from University of Verona, Italy, discusses the complex relationship between iron metabolism and infection.
As an essential element for physiology of all living organisms, iron is involved in many vital processes, including our immune responses to infections. Since the pathogens themselves also depend on iron to survive, the resulting host/pathogen “battle” for iron is one of the key determinants of outcomes of most infectious diseases.
Interestingly, this dependence of pathogens on iron may offer a much-needed solution for multidrug…
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