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Mind the gap: Understanding discordance between culture- and a non-culture-based measure of bacterial burden in murine tuberculosis treatment models
Samuel T. Tabor, Allan D. Friesen, Matthew J. Reichlen…·Nicholas D. Walter
This study evaluates the CFU-16S rRNA gap in tuberculosis treatment models, finding that the discrepancy is partially due to residual 16S rRNA from dead bacteria and potential transient viable but non-culturable populations.
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