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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Main Authors: Tahmina Hossain, Heather S. Deter, Eliza J. Peters, Nicholas C. Butzin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422100359X