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Aug 2026
The bacterial pH gradient contributes to persistence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
ABSTRACT Tuberculosis (TB) remains difficult to cure due in part to poorly defined drug-tolerant persister cells formed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which survive antibiotic treatment without evidence of genetic resistance. To better define this phenotype, we screened 2,336 U.S. Food and Drug Administration-app...
Hassan E. Eldesouky, Kristin N. Adams, Justin K Brache et al.
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