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Ruqayyah Amaratunga

South Dakota State University

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:E. coli· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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MicrobiologyInternational Journal of Antimicrobial AgentsPeer-reviewedNov 15, 2024

Rethinking Dormancy: Antibiotic Persisters are Metabolically Active, Non-Growing Cells

K. M. Taufiqur Rahman, Ruqayyah Amaratunga, Xuan Yi Butzin…·Nicholas C. Butzin

This study challenges the idea that antibiotic persisters are metabolically dormant by showing that Escherichia coli persisters remain metabolically active and exhibit dynamic gene expression changes.

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E. colibulk RNA-seq

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