[Iron availability in Salmonella in diagnosis, epidemiology, and the infectious process].

Well known and new iron supplying systems were described. Salmonella use siderophores of different chemical structures and uptake-systems for self-produced siderophores and siderophores produced by other microorganisms. Iron supplying systems contribute to new methods in diagnosis, epidemiology, vaccination, and development of new siderophore-beta-lactams. It is hoped to obtain new insights in the pathogenesis of salmonella by using methods of iron supplying systems.