New insights into the persistence phenomenon

New insights into the persistence phenomenon

Together with the current antibiotic resistance crisis, bacterial persistence appears to play an increasingly important role in the frequent failure of antibiotic treatments. Persister cells are rare bacteria that transiently become drug tolerant, allowing them to survive lethal concentrations of ba...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goormaghtigh, Frederic
Other Authors: Van Melderen, Laurence
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2016
Subjects:
Sciences exactes et naturelles
Biologie
Biologie moléculaire
Bactériologie générale
Génétique bactérienne
Microbiologie et protistologie [bacteriol.virolog.mycolog.]
Antibiotic tolerance
Bacterial persistence
SOS response
Persistence method
persistence measurement
Tolerance continuum
Growth rate
Ofloxacin
Ofloxacin mechanism of action
Physiological heterogeneity
Bacterial heterogeneity
Filamentation
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/235567

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