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Intracellular persistence of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants within keratinocytes: a cause for antibiotic treatment failure in a patient with darier's disease.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jun 2001
von Eiff C, Becker K, Metze D, Lubritz G, Hockmann J, Schwarz T, Peters G
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Intracellular persistence assays were performed with small-colony variants (SCVs) derived from a patient with Darier's disease from whom different phenotypes and genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated over a 28-month period; the assays revealed that >100-fold more SCV cells persisted in...
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