The birds and the bees: Bacterial sex and its implications in spreading antibiotic resistance
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To Grow, or Not To Grow? The role of metabolic state in antibiotic lethality
Growth rate has long been known to correlate with antibiotic efficacy. In our paper "Bacterial metabolic state more accurately predicts antibiotic lethality than growth rate", we show that bacterial metabolic state in fact does an even better job.