Ashutosh Kumar

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Is there any difference in tendency between pathogenic and non pathogenic bacteria to become persisters in response to antibiotic or other stresses?

Most of the living cell has tendency change its phenotype to persisters. As we know, bacteria temporarily change its phenotype and become persisters ((drug-tolerant phenotype of an organism) to...

05 October 2017 9,600 3 View

Can we put intracellular pathogens in the group of extremophiles?

Intracellular pathogens are able to survive inside macrophage where pH reached up to 2 inside phagolysosome. Is this fine if we can put these pathogens that have developed mechanism to survive in...

14 August 2017 2,338 3 View

Effect of biofilm made by pathogenic bacteria on host/human immune system/response against pathogens

As we know most of the pathogenic microorganism (intracellular/extracellular) make biofilm. What are differences in the modulation of host immune responses by biofilm bacteria and normal...

01 August 2017 3,444 3 View

What is difference between dormant/latent and drug tolerant (Persisters) bacteria?

in the presence of different stresses, bacteria regulate growth and become dormant. In the presence of antibiotics part of bacterial population become drug tolerant. I would like to know the...

24 July 2017 1,886 5 View