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Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence.

  • Balaban NQ Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. nathalie.balaban@mail.huji.ac.il.
  • Helaine S MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  • Lewis K Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Ackermann M Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Aldridge B Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Andersson DI Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Brynildsen MP Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
  • Bumann D Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Camilli A Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Collins JJ Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Department of Biological Engineering, and Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Dehio C Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Fortune S Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Ghigo JM Institut Pasteur, Genetics of Biofilms Laboratory, Paris, France.
  • Hardt WD Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Harms A Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Heinemann M Molecular Systems Biology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Hung DT Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Jenal U Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Levin BR Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Michiels J Center for Microbiology, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Storz G Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Tan MW Infectious Diseases Department, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • Tenson T Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
  • Van Melderen L Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
  • Zinkernagel A Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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  • 2019-04-14
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  • Nature reviews. Microbiology. - 2019
English Increasing concerns about the rising rates of antibiotic therapy failure and advances in single-cell analyses have inspired a surge of research into antibiotic persistence. Bacterial persister cells represent a subpopulation of cells that can survive intensive antibiotic treatment without being resistant. Several approaches have emerged to define and measure persistence, and it is now time to agree on the basic definition of persistence and its relation to the other mechanisms by which bacteria survive exposure to bactericidal antibiotic treatments, such as antibiotic resistance, heteroresistance or tolerance. In this Consensus Statement, we provide definitions of persistence phenomena, distinguish between triggered and spontaneous persistence and provide a guide to measuring persistence. Antibiotic persistence is not only an interesting example of non-genetic single-cell heterogeneity, it may also have a role in the failure of antibiotic treatments. Therefore, it is our hope that the guidelines outlined in this article will pave the way for better characterization of antibiotic persistence and for understanding its relevance to clinical outcomes.
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