Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants, electron transport and persistent infections

PJ McNamara, RA Proctor - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2000 - Elsevier
Staphylococcus aureus that are deficient in oxidative metabolism have been associated
with a spectrum of persistent, recurrent, and antibiotic resistant infections. Specifically, strains …

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

RA Proctor, A Kriegeskorte, BC Kahl… - … cellular and infection …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Persistent and relapsing infections, despite apparently adequate antibiotic therapy, occur …
with Staphylococcus aureus infections. For the purposes of this review, persistence will …

Defining persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study

…, C Boeing, I Subirana, H Seifert, S Rieg… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Staphylococcus aureus persistent bacteraemia is only vaguely defined and the
effect of different durations of bacteraemia on mortality is not well established. Our primary …

Persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: an analysis of risk factors and outcomes

C Hawkins, J Huang, N Jin, GA Noskin… - Archives of internal …, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
Persistent bacteremia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection is
associated with agr dysfunction and low-level in vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet …

Persistent Infection with Small Colony Variant Strains of Staphylococcus aureus in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

B Kahl, M Herrmann, AS Everding… - Journal of Infectious …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… , persist over extended periods, and may contribute to S. aureus persistence in CF patients.
… Membrane potential and gentamicin uptake in Staphylococcus aureus. microbiological …

Management of Staphylococcus aureus infections

DM Bamberger, SE Boyd - American family physician, 2005 - aafp.org
aureus bacteremias are particularly problematic because of the high incidence of associated
complicated infections, … persons are persistent carriers of Staphylococcus aureus, and 60 …

The role of biofilms in persistent infections and factors involved in ica-independent biofilm development and gene regulation in Staphylococcus aureus

AMS Figueiredo, FA Ferreira, CO Beltrame… - Critical Reviews in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… in patients with recalcitrant bacterial infections. In this review, we highlight the importance
of biofilms in the development of persistence and chronicity in some S. aureus diseases, the …

Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis Virulence Strains as Causative Agents of Persistent Infections in Breast Implants

…, A Bulla, V Mazzarello, GV Campus, S Rubino - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus are currently considered two of the
most important pathogens in nosocomial infections … species of Staphylococcus are part of …

Unstable chromosome rearrangements in Staphylococcus aureus cause phenotype switching associated with persistent infections

…, K Vandelannoote, S Giulieri… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants (SCVs) are associated with unusually chronic
and persistent infections despite … Here we investigated the genetic basis for an unstable S. …

The dynamics of T cells during persistent Staphylococcus aureus infection: from antigen‐reactivity to in vivo anergy

C Ziegler, O Goldmann, E Hobeika… - EMBO molecular …, 2011 - embopress.org
… Using an experimental murine model of staphylococcal persistent infection, we demonstrate
aureus containment during the persistent infection, we next investigated the relevance of …