Characterization and Transcriptome Analysis of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Mycobacterium tuberculosis</named-content> Persisters

ABSTRACT Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Significant obstacles in controlling the epidemic are the length of treatment and the large reservoir of latently infected people. Bacteria form dormant, drug-tolerant persister cells, which may be respon...

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Main Authors: Iris Keren, Shoko Minami, Eric Rubin, Kim Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2011-07-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00100-11