Skip Navigation


JAC Advance Access originally published online on May 4, 2007
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2007 60(1):176-177; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm132
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
60/1/176    most recent
dkm132v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Bayston, R.
Right arrow Articles by Smith, T.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Bayston, R.
Right arrow Articles by Smith, T.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Correspondence

Triclosan resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus expressed as small colony variants: a novel mode of evasion of susceptibility to antiseptics—authors' response

Roger Bayston*, Waheed Ashraf and Toni Smith

Biomaterials-Related Infection Group, Division of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery, School of Medical and Surgical Sciences, C Floor West Block, Queens Medical Centre, University Hospitals Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44-115-82-31115; Fax: +44-115-82-31118; E-mail: roger.bayston@nottingham.ac.uk

Keywords: SCVs , S. aureus , MRSA , antimicrobial biomaterials

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Sir,

We welcome the opportunity to reply to the comments by Seaman et al.1 on our recent article.2 First, they say that we recognize, ‘as others have done, ... the potential role of triclosan in [small colony variant (SCV)] generation’. In fact, apart from the parallel publication by Seaman et al.,3 we know . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Transparency declarations


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.Home page
B. T. Tsuji, C. von Eiff, P. A. Kelchlin, A. Forrest, and P. F. Smith
Attenuated Vancomycin Bactericidal Activity against Staphylococcus aureus hemB Mutants Expressing the Small-Colony-Variant Phenotype
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., April 1, 2008; 52(4): 1533 - 1537.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]