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

Persister Cells

(2010) Kim Lewis   Annual Review of Microbiology

Staphylococcus aureus sigma B-dependent emergence of small-colony variants and biofilm production following exposure to Pseudomonas aeruginosa 4-hydroxy-2-heptylquinoline-N-oxide

(2010) Gabriel Mitchell et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Epidemiology and Clinical Consequences of an Emerging Epidemic

(2010) M. Z. David et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis: progresses and challenges

(2010) Winfried V Kern   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Phagolysosomal Integrity Is Generally Maintained after Staphylococcus aureus Invasion of Nonprofessional Phagocytes but Is Modulated by Strain 6850

(2010) T.-T. Lam et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The microbiology of chronic osteomyelitis: Prevalence of resistance to common empirical anti-microbial regimens

(2010) S.H. Sheehy et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Staphylococcal Strains Vary Greatly in Their Ability to Induce an Inflammatory Response in Endothelial Cells

(2010) Matthias Grundmeier et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Staphylococcus aureusSmall‐Colony Variants Are Adapted Phenotypes for Intracellular Persistence

(2010) Lorena Tuchscherr et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Identification of differentially expressed small non-protein-coding RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus displaying both the normal and the small-colony variant phenotype

(2010) Luay F. Abu-Qatouseh et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

Regulation of phenotypic variability by a threshold-based mechanism underlies bacterial persistence

(2010) Eitan Rotem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial pathogens and the autophagic response

(2009) María C. Lerena et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of Clinical Enterococcus faecalis Small-Colony Variants

(2009) N. Wellinghausen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A role for sigma factor B in the emergence of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants and elevated biofilm production resulting from an exposure to aminoglycosides

(2009) Gabriel Mitchell et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

Microbial awakenings

(2009) Slava S. Epstein   NATURE

Experimental evolution of bet hedging

(2009) Hubertus J. E. Beaumont et al.   NATURE

Staphylococcus aureus as an intracellular pathogen: the role of small colony variants

(2009) Parham Sendi et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Synthesis and discovery of autophagy inducers for A549 and H460 lung cancer cells, novel 1-(2′-hydroxy-3′-aroxypropyl)-3-aryl-1H-pyrazole-5-carbohydrazide derivatives

(2008) Chuan-Dong Fan et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants: a challenge to microbiologists and clinicians

(2008) Christof von Eiff   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

agr function in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates

(2008) K. E. Traber et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Staphylococcus aureusSigB activity promotes a strong fibronectin-bacterium interaction which may sustain host tissue colonization by small-colony variants isolated from cystic fibrosis patients

(2008) Gabriel Mitchell et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY