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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.

Allison J. Lopatkin

Aug 26, 2019

Behind the Paper

The birds and the bees: Bacterial sex and its implications in spreading antibiotic resistance

The story behind understanding the influence that antibiotics have on conjugation

Allison J. Lopatkin

Apr 11, 2016

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Research Communities by Springer Nature

Allison J. Lopatkin

To Grow, or Not To Grow? The role of metabolic state in antibiotic lethality

The birds and the bees: Bacterial sex and its implications in spreading antibiotic resistance