A play in four acts: Staphylococcus aureus abscess formation.

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Published in Trends Microbiol on February 25, 2011

Authors

Alice G Cheng1, Andrea C DeDent, Olaf Schneewind, Dominique Missiakas

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1: Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

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