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Antibiotic tolerance

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Antibiotic tolerance allows temporary survival without growth in lethal antibiotic doses, characterized by slower killing rates without resistance. Both persistence and tolerance are linked to bacterial physiology and environment, with potential molecular determinants. These mechanisms, alongside genetic resistance, contribute to persistent infections.

References:
Shah et al. 2006 BMC Microbiol. 6: 53
Maisonneuve & Gerdes 2014 Cell 157: 539-548
Schumacher et al. 2015 Nature 524: 59-64
Wu et al. 2015 Front. Microbiol. 6: 1003
Van den Bergh et al. 2016 Nat. Microbiol. 1: 16020
Erickson et al. 2017 ACS Synth. Biol. 6: 2302–2315
Balaban et al. 2019 Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 17: 441–448

see also:
Antibiotics & Pathogenic Bacteria
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