Stationary-Phase Persisters to Ofloxacin Sustain DNA Damage and Require Repair Systems Only during Recovery
ABSTRACT Chronic infections are a serious health care problem, and bacterial persisters have been implicated in infection reoccurrence. Progress toward finding antipersister therapies has been slow, in part because of knowledge gaps regarding the physiology of these rare phenotypic variants. Evidenc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2015-10-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00731-15 |