Molly A. Ingersoll

Bacterial strategies for surviving antibiotics during urinary tract infection: could uropathogenic Escherichia coli be persisters?

Treating bacterial infections, such as urinary tract infection (UTI), with antibiotics does not always resolve the infection and often results in subsequent re-infection. Treatment failure can be driven by bacterial mechanisms of resistance, tolerance or persistence, collectively known as the antibiotic non-response. A...