MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
The power of dying slowly - persistence as unintentional dormancy
J. S. Rebelo, C. P. F. Domingues, F. Monteiro…·F. Dionisio
This paper simulates bacterial persister decay under indirect resistance and finds the decay follows a power-law with exponent -2, supporting the hypothesis that persistence results from inadvertent cell errors.
DOI 10.1101/2021.01.20.427471