Clinicians have long observed that infections diagnosed as susceptible to antibiotics can sometimes resist treatment. New studies show that such treatment failures can be explained by subpopulations of transiently resistant cells that are often missed by standard clinical diagnostics, offering new therapeutic avenues.
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Lázár, V., Kishony, R. Transient antibiotic resistance calls for attention. Nat Microbiol 4, 1606–1607 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0571-x
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