As their name implies, the most conspicuous feature of SCVs is their colony size — SCVs form ... we highlight that S. aureus SCVs can also cause aggressive infections in humans and animal ...

Now for the first time the scientists have shown that S. aureus, a spherical bacterium ... like structures that emerge from the central colony of bacteria. Using high powered microscopy, we ...

aureus infections. The research began serendipitously when, during an unrelated study, Sarah Forbes, a PhD student in McBain’s lab, created a population of small colony variants by serially ...