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Antibiotic perseverance increases the risk of resistance development.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Jan 2023
Brandis Gerrit, Larsson Jimmy, Elf Johan
Abstract excerpt
The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections poses a global threat. Antibiotic resistance development is generally studied in batch cultures which conceals the heterogeneity in cellular responses. Using single-cell imaging, we studied the growth response of Escherichia coli to sub-inhibitory and inhibitory concentrations of nine antibiotics. We found that the heterogeneity in growth increases more than...
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