Percoll discontinuous density gradient centrifugation method for the fractionation of the subpopulations of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis from in vitro cultures

Bacterial populations in the in vitro laboratory cultures, environment, and patients contain metabolically different subpopulations that respond differently to stress agents, including antibiotics, and emerge as stress tolerant or resistant strains. To contain the emergence of such strains, it is im...

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Main Authors: Srinivasan Vijay, Rashmi Ravindran Nair, Deepti Sharan, Kishor Jakkala, Parthasarathi Ajitkumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-12-01
Series:MethodsX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016123003412