Chemical communication of antibiotic resistance by a highly resistant subpopulation of bacterial cells.

The overall antibiotic resistance of a bacterial population results from the combination of a wide range of susceptibilities displayed by subsets of bacterial cells. Bacterial heteroresistance to antibiotics has been documented for several opportunistic Gram-negative bacteria, but the mechanism of h...

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Main Authors: Omar M El-Halfawy, Miguel A Valvano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3700957?pdf=render