A plasmid-encoded fetmp-fls iron uptake system confers selective advantages to salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium in growth under iron-restricted conditions and for infection of mammalian host cells

This work was supported by the Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria, Instituto de Salud Carlos III,Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union: a way to making Europe, FIS projects PI11-00808 and PI7-00474 (granted to M.R.R.), and by the DFT (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) through SFB944, Projects P4 and P15 (granted to M.H.). Work inOsnabrück was partially supported by a research collaboration in the frame of the IPID (International PromovierenIn Deutschlandnetwork) of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, covering travel and expensesof V.G. and N.M.A.F-L. was a recipient of a DAAD research fellowship (A0773175)