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Evaluation of two chromogenic agar media for recovery and identification of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2005
Kipp Frank, Kahl Barbara C, Becker Karsten, Baron Ellen J, Proctor Richard A, Peters Georg, von Eiff Christof
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To identify the most rapid and reliable technique for recovery and identification of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants (SCVs), the colonial appearance of 106 isolates representing SCVs and the normal phenotype were evaluated on two newly described chromogenic agar media. Although almost all of the SCVs grew on the chromogenic agar media, they did not exhibit a change of color. In comparison with...
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