Intermediate-Type Vancomycin Resistance (VISA) in Genetically-Distinct Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Is Linked to Specific, Reversible Metabolic Alterations

• Elizabeth L. Alexander ,

  * E-mail: ela2005@med.cornell.edu; kyr9001@med.cornell.edu

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Susana Gardete,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Haim Y. Bar,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Martin T. Wells,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology and Department of Statistical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Alexander Tomasz,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Kyu Y. Rhee

  * E-mail: ela2005@med.cornell.edu; kyr9001@med.cornell.edu

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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