Small colony variants: a pathogenic form of bacteria that facilitates persistent and recurrent infections

By R. Proctor, C. Eiff, B. Kahl, K. Becker, P. Mcnamara, M. Herrmann, G. Peters. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Biochemistry, Infectious Diseases

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• Antibiotic resistance and persistence—Implications for human health and treatment perspectives (2020, positive): “Usually, nsSCs are defined as colonies with an area 5 or 10 times smaller than the area of the most common colony type (Proctor et al , 2006).”