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Population diversification in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms may promote dissemination and persistence.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2013

Savage Victoria J, Chopra Ian, O'Neill Alex J

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The biofilm mode of growth can lead to diversification of the bacterial population by promoting the emergence of variants. Here we report the identification and characterization of two major subpopulations of morphological variants arising in biofilms of S. aureus. One of these lacked pigmentation (termed white variants; WVs), whilst the other formed colonies on agar that were larger and paler than the parental...

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PMID: 23646129
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062513
PMCID: PMC3640034

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