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Population Diversification in Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms May Promote Dissemination and Persistence

The biofilm mode of growth can lead to diversification of the bacterial population by promoting the emergence of variants. Here we report the identification and characterization of two major subpopulations of morphological variants arising in biofilms of S. aureus. One of these lacked pigmentation (...

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Autores principales: Savage, Victoria J., Chopra, Ian, O’Neill, Alex J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23646129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062513