Key role of quorum-sensing mutations in the development of Staphylococcus aureus clinical device-associated infection

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ² Department of Orthopedics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
• ³ Clinical Laboratory Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
• ⁴ Pathogen Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Orthopedics, Jinjiang Municipal Hospital, Fujian, China.
• ⁶ Faculty of Medical Laboratory Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.