Understanding and Sensitizing Density-Dependent Persistence to Quinolone Antibiotics

Physiologic and environmental factors can modulate antibiotic activity and thus pose a significant challenge to antibiotic treatment. The quinolone class of antibiotics, which targets bacterial topoisomerases, fails to kill bacteria that have grown to high density; however, the mechanistic basis for...

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Main Authors: Hamblin, Meagan, Gutierrez, Arnaud, Jain, Saloni R., Saluja, Prerna Bhargava, Lobritz, Michael Andrew, Collins, James J.
Other Authors: Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117581
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