Wow this article is extremely interesting! We have known for a long time that sometimes bacteria become very resistant to antibiotics. Scientific researchers have long been looking for ways to battle this resistance in our quest to kill bacterial infections in our bodies.
It seems that when bacteria enter a starvation state, they also trigger a resistance that does not allow our antibiotics to have any kind of significant effect. Now scientists are looking at the triggers for this starvation state.
If they can determine what happens at the time the cells are triggered to go into the starvation state, they can use that information to target the cells and kill them before they become ultra resistant.
It is worth reading the whole article, to find out the progress they have made.
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