Persister cells and tolerance to antimicrobials
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- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 230 (1) , 13-18
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(03)00856-5
Abstract
Bacterial populations produce persister cells that neither grow nor die in the presence of microbicidal antibiotics. Persisters are largely responsibKeywords
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