Bacterial persistence is essential for susceptible cell survival in indirect resistance, mainly for lower cell densities

• João S. Rebelo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: João S. Rebelo, Célia P. F. Domingues

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation cE3c –Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-7378

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• Célia P. F. Domingues ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: João S. Rebelo, Célia P. F. Domingues

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations cE3c –Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, INIAV, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2970-010X

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• Francisca Monteiro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation cE3c –Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-714X

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• Teresa Nogueira,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations cE3c –Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, INIAV, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0059-5177

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• Francisco Dionisio

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dionisio@fc.ul.pt

  Affiliation cE3c –Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3653-1511

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