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. 2012 Jan 12;8(1):e1002434. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002434

Figure 4. Presence of pseudocapsule and MAM structures in various clinical isolates.

Figure 4

Clinical S. aureus isolates were cultivated as described for strain Newman and evaluated after 16 h of growth. MSSA strain MP9-11 (A). MSSA strain MP3-11 (B). MSSA strain MP6-11 (C). MRSA strain MP10-11 (D). CA-MRSA strain USA300 (E). MSSA strain MP2-11 (F). MRSA strain ST239-CC8 (G). MSSA strain MP1-11 (H). Pseudocapsules (yellow arrowheads) and MAM-like structures (blue arrowheads) are indicated. A–C: scale bar 20 µm. D–H: scale bar 75 µm.