Antibiotic persistence evolution challenges understanding, may impact future treatment strategies
Bacterial persistence to antibiotics can evolve over time. Researchers studied this by growing bacteria for 50,000 generations without antibiotics. They found that in most cases, the level of persistence stayed the same, even without environmental changes. However, in one case, the level of persistence decreased, suggesting it may not always be due to cellular errors. This challenges our understanding of how bacteria evolve to survive antibiotics.
