Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus under Vancomycin Selective Pressure: the Role of the Small-Colony Variant Phenotype

Staphylococcus aureus Small Colony Variants (SCVs): a road map for the metabolic pathways involved in persistent infections

(2014) Richard A. Proctor et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Reduced glycopeptide and lipopeptide susceptibility in Staphylococcus aureus and the “seesaw effect”: Taking advantage of the back door left open?

(2013) Jessica K. Ortwine et al.   DRUG RESISTANCE UPDATES

Staphylococcus aureus persistence in non-professional phagocytes

(2013) Bettina Löffler et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Antibiotic activity against small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus: review of in vitro, animal and clinical data

(2013) Laetitia G. Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

β-Lactams Increase the Antibacterial Activity of Daptomycin against Clinical Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Prevent Selection of Daptomycin-Resistant Derivatives

(2012) Shrenik Mehta et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Pharmacodynamic Evaluation of the Activity of Antibiotics against Hemin- and Menadione-Dependent Small-Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus in Models of Extracellular (Broth) and Intracellular (THP-1 Monocytes) Infections

(2012) L. G. Garcia et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Intracellular forms of menadione-dependent small-colony variants of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are hypersusceptible to  -lactams in a THP-1 cell model due to cooperation between vacuolar acidic pH and oxidant species

(2012) L. G. Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Phenotype Switching Is a Natural Consequence of Staphylococcus aureus Replication

(2012) A. M. Edwards   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Coordinated phenotype switching with large-scale chromosome flip-flop inversion observed in bacteria

(2012) L. Cui et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children

(2011) Catherine Liu et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Staphylococcus aureusphenotype switching: an effective bacterial strategy to escape host immune response and establish a chronic infection

(2011) Lorena Tuchscherr et al.   EMBO Molecular Medicine

Comparative in vitro activity of finafloxacin against staphylococci displaying normal and small colony variant phenotypes

(2011) Evgeny A. Idelevich et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Thymidine Auxotrophic Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variant Endocarditis and Left Ventricular Assist Device Infection

(2011) A. Maduka-Ezeh et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Intracellular Activity of Antibiotics in a Model of Human THP-1 Macrophages Infected by a Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variant Strain Isolated from a Cystic Fibrosis Patient: Pharmacodynamic Evaluation and Comparison with Isogenic Normal-Phenotype and Revertant Strains

(2009) H. A. Nguyen et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Daptomycin pharmacodynamics against Staphylococcus aureus hemB mutants displaying the small colony variant phenotype

(2009) D. Begic et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Attenuated Vancomycin Bactericidal Activity against Staphylococcus aureus hemB Mutants Expressing the Small-Colony-Variant Phenotype

(2008) B. T. Tsuji et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Larger Vancomycin Doses (at Least Four Grams per Day) Are Associated with an Increased Incidence of Nephrotoxicity

(2008) T. P. Lodise et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY