Article
Colonial morphology of staphylococci on Memphis agar: phase variation of slime production, resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, and virulence.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jun 1990
Christensen G D, Baddour L M, Madison B M, Parisi J T, Abraham S N, Hasty D L, Lowrance J H, Josephs J A, Simpson W A
Abstract excerpt
The growth of Staphylococcus epidermidis sensu stricto and Staphylococcus saprophyticus on Memphis agar yielded up to 6 morphotypes with each strain. With S. epidermidis, one morphotype produced slime (rho) but became non-slime-producing (epsilon) at a high frequency. The slime-producing rho vari...
Topics
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Culture Media
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Endocarditis, Bacterial
- Male
- Mice
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Phagocytosis
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains