Intestinal inflammation allows Salmonella to use ethanolamine to compete with the microbiota

• Main Authors: Parameth Thiennimitr, Sebastian E. Winter, Maria G. Winter, Mariana N. Xavier, Vladimir Tolstikov, Douglas L. Huseby, Torsten Sterzenbach, Renée M. Tsolis, John R. Roth, Andreas J. Bäumler
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=80054806900&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/50379
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Conventional wisdom holds that microbes support their growth in vertebrate hosts by exploiting a large variety of nutrients. We show here that use of a specific nutrient (ethanolamine) confers a marked growth advantage on Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) in the lumen of the i...