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Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibiting a phenotypic hyper-splitting phenomenon including the formation of small colony variants.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2024
Doğan Eyüp, Sydow Katharina, Heiden Stefan E, Eger Elias, Wassilew Georgi, Proctor Richard A, Bohnert Jürgen A, Idelevich Evgeny A, Schaufler Katharina, Becker Karsten
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In this study, we characterized a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain in a patient with shrapnel hip injury, which resulted in multiple phenotypic changes, including the formation of a small colony variant (SCV) phenotype. Although already described since the 1960s, there is little knowledge about SCV phenotypes in Enterobacteriaceae. The formation of SCVs has been recognized as a bacterial strategy to evade host immune...
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