Clinical Staphylococcus argenteus Develops to Small Colony Variants to Promote Persistent Infection

Staphylococcus argenteus is a novel staphylococcal species (also considered as a part of Staphylococcus aureus complex) that is infrequently reported on, and clinical S. argenteus infections are largely unstudied. Here, we report a persistent and recurrent hip joint infection case in which a S. arge...

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Main Authors: Bei Jiang, Bo You, Li Tan, Shengpeng Yu, Han Li, Guoqing Bai, Shu Li, Xiancai Rao, Zhao Xie, Xianming Shi, Yizhi Peng, Xiaomei Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01347/full