Antibiotic tolerance, persistence, and resistance of the evolved minimal cell, Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-Syn3B
Summary: Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, but bacteria can evade antibiotic treatment via tolerance and persistence. Antibiotic persisters are a small subpopulation of bacteria that tolerate antibiotics due to a physiologically dormant state. Hence, persistence is considered a major contr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-05-01
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Series: | iScience |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422100359X |