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Unrelated toxin–antitoxin systems cooperate to induce persistence

Persisters are drug-tolerant bacteria that account for the majority of bacterial infections. They are not mutants, rather, they are slow-growing cells in an otherwise normally growing population. It is known that the frequency of persisters in a population is correlated with the number of toxin–anti...

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Autores principales: Fasani, Rick A., Savageau, Michael A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26063817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0130