Ranking of persister genes in the same Escherichia coli genetic background demonstrates varying importance of individual persister genes in tolerance to different antibiotics.

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Published in Front Microbiol on September 30, 2015

Authors

Nan Wu1, Lei He1, Peng Cui1, Wenjie Wang1, Youhua Yuan1, Shuang Liu1, Tao Xu1, Shanshan Zhang1, Jing Wu1, Wenhong Zhang1, Ying Zhang2

Author Affiliations

1: Key Lab of Molecular Virology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
2: Key Lab of Molecular Virology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University Shanghai, China ; Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA.

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