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bacterial persistence: a standalone construct

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Microbiology

a small subpopulation switches to a slow-growing state that survives antibiotics without genetic resistance.

In microbiology, bacterial persistence refers to a small subpopulation switches to a slow-growing state that survives antibiotics without genetic resistance. This meaning comes from Balaban (2004) in Science.[1]

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References

Balaban, N. Q., Merrin, J., Chait, R., Kowalik, L., & Leibler, S. (2004). Bacterial Persistence as a Phenotypic Switch. Science, 305(5690), 1622-1625. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1099390

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