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This study aimed to investigate the effects of environmental stressors prior to antibiotic exposure on the antibiotic resistance of <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We used Raman spectroscopy and flow cytometry to measure prior stress-induced phenotypic alterations of <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>, and identified the association between phenotypic shifts and the antibiotic resistance.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results revealed a multifaceted relationship between stressors and the development of antibiotic resistance. The stressors effectuate distinct phenotypic diversifications and subsequently amplify these phenotypic alterations following antibiotic treatments, contingent upon the specific mode of action; these phenotypic shifts in turn promote the development of antibiotic resistance in <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>. This study\u2019s findings demonstrated that the presence of pre-stress conditions triggered an augmentation of resistance to vancomycin (VAN), while concurrently attenuating resistance to norfloxacin. Marked shifts in Raman peaks associated with lipids and nucleic acids demonstrated correlations with elevated survival rates following VAN treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Consequently, these observations indicate that pre-stress conditions \u201cprime\u201d bacterial cells for differential responses to antibiotics and bear significant implications for formulating clinical therapeutic strategies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2023.1304509","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,4]],"date-time":"2023-12-04T05:11:32Z","timestamp":1701666692000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Phenotypic shifts induced by environmental pre-stressors modify antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Gui Nam","family":"Wee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eun Sun","family":"Lyou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Susmita Das","family":"Nishu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tae Kwon","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3059","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2019.03059","article-title":"The uptake and release of amino acids by Staphylococcus aureus at mid-exponential and stationary phases and their corresponding responses to changes in temperature, pH and osmolality","volume":"10","author":"Alreshidi","year":"2020","journal-title":"Front. 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