Salt stress leads to deep slumber (IMAGE)

Goethe University Frankfurt

Salt stress leads to deep slumber

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When stressed by high salt concentrations, a number of the cultured Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria die after a few days (orange dots), but many continue to live in a kind of deep sleep (VNBC, green dots).

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Volker Mueller, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

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