Competing for Iron: Duplication and Amplification of the isd Locus in Staphylococcus lugdunensis HKU09-01 Provides a Competitive Advantage to Overcome Nutritional Limitation

• Simon Heilbronner ,

  * E-mail: simon.heilbronner@uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Infection Biology, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Ian R. Monk,

  Affiliations Microbiology Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6982-8074

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• Jeremy R. Brozyna,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• David E. Heinrichs,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Eric P. Skaar,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Tennessee Valley Healthcare Systems, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Andreas Peschel,

  Affiliation Infection Biology, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Timothy J. Foster

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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