E. Coli Persists Against Antibiotics Through HipA-induced Dormancy

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 01:39 in Health & Medicine

Bacteria hunker down and survive antibiotic attack when a protein flips a chemical switch that throws them into a dormant state until treatment abates, researchers report in Science.

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