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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
卷 17, 期 10, 页码 607-620出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41579-019-0238-x
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- Wellcome Trust [104111/Z/14/Z]
- US National Institutes of Health [R01 AI124692]
- BBSRC [BB/N007999/1, BB/S001034/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/L018853/1, MR/S019650/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Antimicrobial treatment failure threatens our ability to control infections. In addition to antimicrobial resistance, treatment failures are increasingly understood to derive from cells that survive drug treatment without selection of genetically heritable mutations. Parasitic protozoa, such as Plasmodium species that cause malaria, Toxoplasma gondii and kinetoplastid protozoa, including Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania spp., cause millions of deaths globally. These organisms can evolve drug resistance and they also exhibit phenotypic diversity, including the formation of quiescent or dormant forms that contribute to the establishment of long-term infections that are refractory to drug treatment, which we refer to as 'persister-like cells'. In this Review, we discuss protozoan persister-like cells that have been linked to persistent infections and discuss their impact on therapeutic outcomes following drug treatment.
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