Heavy Metal Acts as Heavy Artillery Against Bacterial Infections (IMAGE)

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Heavy Metal Acts as Heavy Artillery Against Bacterial Infections

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Gallium synergized with the antibiotic colistin (Col) in killing P. aeruginosa bacteria in plate cultures. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 26, 2018, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.H. Goss at University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Wash.; and colleagues was titled, "Gallium disrupts bacterial iron metabolism and has therapeutic effects in mice and humans with lung infections."

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C.H. Goss <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)]

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