Growth Factor: How Bacterial Infections Persist through Antibiotics [Video] | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

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 "“We thought that surviving bacteria made up a fixed population that stopped dividing,” Neeraj Dhar, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and study co-author, said in a prepared statement. Instead, a stable overall population was hiding a “very dynamic” colony, he said."

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