Minimal Surviving Inoculum in Collective Antibiotic Resistance

ABSTRACT A common strategy used by bacteria to resist antibiotics is enzymatic degradation or modification. This reduces the antibiotic threat in the environment and is therefore potentially a collective mechanism that also enhances the survival of nearby cells. Collective resistance is of clinical...

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Main Authors: Lukas Geyrhofer, Philip Ruelens, Andrew D. Farr, Diego Pesce, J. Arjan G. M. de Visser, Naama Brenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-04-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02456-22