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Small Colony Variants and Senescent Bacteria
Small colony variants (SCVs) are bacterial subpopulation that grow slowly and form smaller colonies. They have been described for a wide range of bacterial species, but most extensively studied for…
Received 21 April 2009 14:40 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Pharmacology
Persisters show heritable phenotype and generate bacterial heterogeneity and noise in protein expression
Persisters are a small subpopulation of bacteria that survive a lethal concentration of antibiotic without antibiotic resistance genes. Isolation of persisters from normally dividing population is …
Received 06 April 2009 19:21 UTC; Posted 06 April 2009
Posted to: Microbiology