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Fig. 3

From: How do environment-dependent switching rates between susceptible and persister cells affect the dynamics of biofilms faced with antibiotics?

Fig. 3

Number of cells surviving after 2 h and 8 h-long antibiotic treatments for the three switching strategies: constant (Const.), substrate-dependent (Sub.-dep.) and antibiotic-dependent (Ant.-dep.). Cells reverting to the susceptible state during treatments died quickly. The populations post-treatment were composed solely of persisters: (s + p)post-treatment ≈ ppost-treatment. amax is the maximum switching rate from the susceptible state to the non-growing persister state. bmax is the maximum switching rate from the persister state to the susceptible state

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