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SUBMITTER: Prax M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784881 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prax Marcel M Mechler Lukas L Weidenmaier Christopher C Bertram Ralph R
PloS one 20160309 3
Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus in stationary growth phase with high doses of the antibiotic daptomycin (DAP) eradicates the vast majority of the culture and leaves persister cells behind. Despite resting in a drug-tolerant and dormant state, persister cells exhibit metabolic activity which might be exploited for their elimination. We here report that the addition of glucose to S. aureus persisters treated with DAP increased killing by up to five-fold within one hour. This glucose-DAP effect ...[more]