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Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic analysis is a powerful tool for studying the dynamic changes in Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2006
Becker Karsten, Laham Nahed Al, Fegeler Wolfgang, Proctor Richard A, Peters Georg, von Eiff Christof
Abstract excerpt
Infections due to small-colony variants (SCVs) of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with chronic and recurrent infections are an emerging problem; however, studies with this subpopulation are hampered by the fact that SCVs may exhibit unstable phenotypes, making them difficult to study, particularly in broth media. In this study, two S. aureus sets comprising the (i) normal and the (ii) SCV phenotype (clonal with...
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