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Altered Growth, Pigmentation, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Properties of Staphylococcus aureus Due to Loss of the Major Cold Shock Gene cspB
6 Apr 2010
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An insertional mutation made in the major cold shock gene cspB in Staphylococcus aureus strain COL, a methicillin-resistant clinical isolate, yielded a mutant that displayed a reduced capacity to respond to cold shock and many phenotypic characteristics of S. aureus small-colony variants: a growth defect at 37 degrees C, a reduction in pigmentation, and altered levels of susceptibility to many antimicrobials. In...
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