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SUBMITTER: Ahmad I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6319719 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahmad Irfan I Karah Nabil N Nadeem Aftab A Wai Sun Nyunt SN Uhlin Bernt Eric BE
PloS one 20190104 1
Reversible switching between opaque and translucent colony formation is a novel feature of Acinetobacter baumannii that has been associated with variations in the cell morphology, surface motility, biofilm formation, antibiotic resistance and virulence. Here, we assessed a number of phenotypic alterations related to colony switching in A. baumannii clinical isolates belonging to different multi-locus sequence types. Our findings demonstrated that these phenotypic alterations were mostly strain-s ...[more]