Article
[Bacteria cleaving small-colony variants as causative agents of infective endocarditis and other severe diseases].
Klinicka mikrobiologie a infekcni lekarstvi - 1 Jun 2013
Beneš Jiří, Džupová Olga
Abstract excerpt
Small-colony variants (SCV) associated with specific biochemical features were described in many bacterial species. Bacteria with SCV phenotype have knocked out metabolic pathways for aerobic respiration, thus they behave like strict anaerobes. They are handicapped in competition for nutrients with other microbes but on the other hand they are able to resist some antibiotics and survive inside eucaryotic cells....
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacteria
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Endocarditis, Bacterial
- Phenotype