Antibiotic tolerance, persistence, and resistance of the evolved minimal cell, Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-Syn3B.
Tahmina Hossain, Heather S. Deter, Eliza J. Peters, Nicholas C. Butzin
This study examines antibiotic tolerance, persistence, and resistance in the minimal cell Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-Syn3B, finding it rapidly evolves resistance and exhibits tolerance and persistence against multiple antibiotics.