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The Role of Staphylococcus aureus YycFG in Gene Regulation, Biofilm Organization and Drug Resistance

Shizhou Wu,
Junqi Zhang,
Qi Peng,
Yunjie Liu,
Lei Lei and
Hui Zhang

Antibiotics2021, 10(12), 1555;https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10121555

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19 December 2021

Antibiotic resistance is a serious global health concern that may have significant social and financial consequences. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is responsible for substantial morbidity and leads to the death of 21.8...

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An Antisense yycF RNA Modulates Biofilm Organization of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pathogenicity in a Rat Model of Osteomyelitis

Shizhou Wu,
Yunjie Liu,
Lei Lei and
Hui Zhang

Antibiotics2021, 10(5), 603;https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10050603

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19 May 2021

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is one of most common opportunistic pathogens and is attributed to several human infections. The increasing incidence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is a serious clinical threat for osteomyelitis crisis. T...

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Transcriptome Analysis of Streptococcus mutans Quorum Sensing-Mediated Persisters Reveals an Enrichment in Genes Related to Stress Defense Mechanisms

Delphine Dufour,
Haowen Li,
Siew-Ging Gong and
Céline M. Lévesque

Genes2023, 14(10), 1887;https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14101887

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28 September 2023

Persisters are a small fraction of growth-arrested phenotypic variants that can survive lethal concentrations of antibiotics but are able to resume growth once antibiotics are stopped. Their formation can be a stochastic process or one triggered by e...

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