Phenotypic Variants of Staphylococci and Their Underlying Population Distributions Following Exposure to Stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Onyango, Laura A ^a   Hugh Dunstan, R ^a   Roberts, Timothy K ^a   Macdonald, Margaret M ^a   Gottfries, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G; PROTEOME; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOLYSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; METABOLOME; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PH; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL COLONY VARIANT PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL SIZE; CELL WALL; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHENOTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84885819348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077614     Document Type: Article

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