The Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus Small Colony Variant Isolated from Chronic Mastitis at a Dairy Farm in Yunnan Province, China

Figure 7

Small colony variants S. aureus SCV22 and their parental strain S. aureus11 induced apoptosis of primary bovine mammary epithelial cells (a, b). There were significant differences between S. aureus SCV22 and control. There is a very significant difference between S. aureus11 and control.

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