date:Feb 20, 2019
antibiotic doses. They can also delay their growth, grow more quickly, or create biofilms as they grow that shield them from the drug.
Researchers created a mathematical model to try to explain this phenomenon. The model describes the dynamics of bacterial populations facing different concentrations of the antimicrobial, showing how dead cells sequester the dangerous molecule and predicting the delayed growth of surviving cells.
Andrej Kosmrlj, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospa