Persisters refer to genetically drug susceptible quiescent (non-growing or slow growing)
bacteria that survive in stress environments such as antibiotic exposure, acidic and …

Infections arising from multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria are spreading rapidly
throughout the world and threaten to become untreatable. The origins of resistance are …

Antibiotic resistance is an urgent threat to global health. Antidepressants are consumed in
large quantities, with a similar pharmaceutical market share (4.8%) to antibiotics (5%). While …

To minimize the impact of antibiotics, gut microorganisms harbour and exchange antibiotics
resistance genes, collectively called their resistome. Using shotgun sequencing-based …

Many bacteria can infect and persist inside their hosts for long periods of time. This can be
due to immunosuppression of the host, immune evasion by the pathogen and/or ineffective …

BACKGROUND The escalating crisis of multidrug resistance is raising fears of untreatable
infections caused by bacterial “superbugs.” However, many patients already suffer from …

Cell dormancy is a widespread mechanism used by bacteria to evade environmental
threats, including antibiotics. Here we monitored bacterial antibiotic tolerance and regrowth …

Antimicrobial resistance has emerged as a global threat to human health. Natural
transformation is an important pathway for horizontal gene transfer, which facilitates the …

Persisters are transiently tolerant variants that allow populations to avoid eradication by
antibiotic treatment. Their antibiotic tolerance is non-genetic, not inheritable and results from …

Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial pathogen and gram-negative coccobacillus that is
responsible for opportunistic infections, pneumonia, and infections of the urinary tract …