LYME PERSISTERS & STATIONARY FORMS FROM TOP LYME AUTHOR

Daptomycin, a membrane-active bactericidal antibiotic, killed stationary-phase cells but not persisters.

Mitomycin C, an anticancer agent that forms adducts with DNA, killed persisters and eradicated growing and stationary cultures of B. burgdorferi.

Sharma B, Brown AV, Matluck NE, Hu LT, Lewis K. Borrelia burgdorferi, the Causative Agent of Lyme Disease, Forms Drug-Tolerant Persister Cells. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Aug;59(8):4616-24. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00864-15. Epub 2015 May 26. PMID: 26014929; PMCID: PMC4505243.

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