Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Abstract
Persistence is a nonheritable trait by which normal growing cells switch phenotypically to antibiotic tolerant persister cells. This transient state enables persister cells to recover and grow into an antibiotic-sensitive population.
Funder
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology