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"The image most clinicians have is that antibiotics work by killing actively dividing bacteria, and nondividing bacteria are the ones that resist treatment and cause infections to persist,” said Laura Certain of the Wyss Institute. “I wanted to know whether that’s actually true.”

Assumptions of how antibiotics work may be incorrect

Bacteria with synthetic genetic ‘switches’ show antibiotics work differently than thought

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DateSeptember 6, 2017September 6, 2017