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Pseudomonas aeruginosa induces pigment production and enhances virulence in a white phenotypic variant of Staphylococcus aureus

Staphyloxanthin is a virulence factor which protects Staphylococcus aureus in stress conditions. We isolated two pigment variants of S. aureus and one strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a single wound infection. S. aureus variants displayed white and yellow colony phenotypes. The sequence of the...

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Autores principales: Antonic, Vlado, Stojadinovic, Alexander, Zhang, Binxue, Izadjoo, Mina J, Alavi, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3825675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24232573
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IDR.S49039