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Genetic variation for antibiotic persistence in Escherichia coli.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2012
Stewart Balint, Rozen Daniel E
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial persistence describes a heterogeneous response to antibiotics in clonal populations of bacteria due to phenotypic variation within the population, with a small proportion of cells surviving treatment even at very high concentrations of drug. The aim of this study was to determine whether different natural isolates of Escherichia coli, selected at random from a collection representing the spectrum of...
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