Columbia blood agar plate showing an isogenic S Columbia blood agar plate showing an isogenic S. epidermidis strain pair displaying both the normal (arrows) and SCV (dashed arrows) phenotypes. Columbia blood agar plate showing an isogenic S. epidermidis strain pair displaying both the normal (arrows) and SCV (dashed arrows) phenotypes. The normal phenotype (NP) on this plate was the result of a spontaneous reversion of the SCV back to the NP. Karsten Becker et al. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2014; doi:10.1128/CMR.00109-13