Volume 5, Number 3—June 1999
Perspective
Iron Loading and Disease Surveillance
Eugene D. Weinberg
Table 2
Microbial genera with strains whose growth in body fluids, cells, tissues, and intact vertebrate hosts is stimulated by excess iron (8)
| Fungi | Protozoa | Gram-positive and acid-fast bacteria | Gram-negative bacteria | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candida | Entamoeba | Bacillus | Acinetobacter | Klebsiella |
| Cryptococcus | Leishmania | Clostridium | Aeromonas | Legionella |
| Histoplasma | Naegleria | Corynebacterium | Alcaligenes | Moraxella |
| Paracoccidioides | Plasmodium | Erysipelothrix | Campylobacter | Neisseria |
| Pneumocystis | Toxoplasma | Listeria | Capnocytophaga | Pasteurella |
| Pythium | Trypanosoma | Mycobacterium | Chlamydia | Proteus |
| Rhizopus | Staphylococcus | Ehrlichia | Pseudomonas | |
| Trichosporon | Streptococcus | Enterobacter | Salmonella | |
| Escherichia | Shigella | |||
