مقاومة المضادات الحيوية
Antibiotic resistance plays a critical role in the development and persistence of infection and although is not considered to be a virulence factor alone, may act as a virulence-like factor in unique circumstances by facilitating the colonization of opportunistic pathogens such as "Staphylococcus schleiferi," allowing them greater opportunity to cause disease such as in nosocomial infections.