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The role of Staphylococcus aureus surface protein SasG in adherence and biofilm formation
(2007)
Staphylococcus aureus colonizes the moist squamous epithelium of the anterior nares. One of the adhesins likely to be responsible is the S. aureus surface protein G (SasG), which has sequence similarity with the proteins ...
Key role for clumping factor B in Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization of humans.
(2008)
Staphylococcus aureus permanently colonizes the vestibulum nasi of one-fifth of the human population, which is a risk factor for autoinfection. The precise mechanisms whereby S. aureus colonizes the nose are still unknown. ...
The Staphylococcus aureus "superbug"
(2004)
There has been some debate about the disease-invoking potential of Staphylococcus aureus strains and whether invasive disease is associated with particularly virulent genotypes, or "superbugs." A study in this issue of the ...