Piezotolerant small-colony variants with increased thermotolerance, antibiotic susceptibility, and low invasiveness in a clonal Staphylococcus aureus population

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1873-1881

  Karatzas, Kimon A G ^a   Zervos, Angelos ^a   Tassou, Chrysoula C ^b   Mallidis, Costas G ^b   Humphrey, Tom J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CELLS; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; POLYMORPHISM;

AGGLUTINATION REACTIONS; ISOLATES; MUTATIONS; THERMOTOLERANCE;

BACTERIA;

FIBRINOGEN; PROTEIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CLONAL ORGANISM; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTATION; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VIRULENCE;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTSR GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HRCA GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRESS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CACO-2 CELLS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEAT; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33947356678     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01801-06     Document Type: Article

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