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Small-colony variant of Staphylococcus lugdunensis in prosthetic joint infection

Prosthetic joint infection is usually caused by staphylococci. Among the coagulase-negative staphylococci, Staphylococcus lugdunensis is important because it behaves as a pathogen similar to S aureus. It also develops biofilms, and the biofilm phenotype can appear as small-colony variants. Although...

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Autores principales: Askar, Mohamed, Bloch, Benjamin, Bayston, Roger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123340/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2018.06.003