Growth arrest of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in acidic environments enhances their survival of antibiotic treatment

• Eun Seon Chung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eun Seon Chung, William C. Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• William C. Johnson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eun Seon Chung, William C. Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maliwan Kamkaew,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Timothy A. Fitzgerald,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Morgan E. McNellis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Trever C. Smith II,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Srinivasan Vijay,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A & M University School of Medicine, Bryan, Texas, United States of America, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Nguyen Thuy Thuong Thuong,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Shumin Tan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bree B. Aldridge

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bree.aldridge@tufts.edu

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2236-1424

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