Sleeper cells – the secret lives of invincible bacteria (persisters)

Our antibiotics are failing us. Bacteria are evolving resistance to virtually all of our frontline drugs. They build up mutations in their DNA that allow them to pump drugs from their cells, or build enzymes that destroy them. They shift into stealth mode, by changing the shape of the molecules that antibiotics are designed to […]
— Read on www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/01/03/sleeper-cells-the-secret-lives-of-invincible-bacteria/