Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature

Staphylococcus aureus produces a particular morphological variant called small colony variant (SCV) which is responsible for persistent subclinical infections in predisposed individuals and is usually resistant to aminoglycosides and cell wall active antibiotics. Infections by SCV of S. aureus are a...

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Autores principales: Bhattacharyya, S, Roy, S, Mukhopadhyay, PK, Rit, K, Dey, JB, Ganguly, U, Ray, R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22973477
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author Bhattacharyya, S
Roy, S
Mukhopadhyay, PK
Rit, K
Dey, JB
Ganguly, U
Ray, R
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Roy, S
Mukhopadhyay, PK
Rit, K
Dey, JB
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Ray, R
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description Staphylococcus aureus produces a particular morphological variant called small colony variant (SCV) which is responsible for persistent subclinical infections in predisposed individuals and is usually resistant to aminoglycosides and cell wall active antibiotics. Infections by SCV of S. aureus are an upcoming problem due to difficulty in laboratory diagnosis and resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy. We here report a case of infective endocarditis caused by SCV of Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric patient.
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spelling pubmed-34346492012-09-12 Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature Bhattacharyya, S Roy, S Mukhopadhyay, PK Rit, K Dey, JB Ganguly, U Ray, R Iran J Microbiol Case Report Staphylococcus aureus produces a particular morphological variant called small colony variant (SCV) which is responsible for persistent subclinical infections in predisposed individuals and is usually resistant to aminoglycosides and cell wall active antibiotics. Infections by SCV of S. aureus are an upcoming problem due to difficulty in laboratory diagnosis and resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy. We here report a case of infective endocarditis caused by SCV of Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric patient. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3434649/ /pubmed/22973477 Text en © 2012 Iranian Society of Microbiology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Bhattacharyya, S
Roy, S
Mukhopadhyay, PK
Rit, K
Dey, JB
Ganguly, U
Ray, R
Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
title Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Small Colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort small colony variants of staphylococcus aureus isolated from a patient with infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22973477
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