B. Van den Bergh

This study identifies and characterizes antibiotic-tolerant persisters in clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates, showing high natural diversity in persistence across strains.

The paper shows that in vitro persistence levels of Pseudomonas aeruginosa correlate with in vivo survival in a mouse lung infection model, validating classical persistence assays for clinical relevance.

This study isolates persisters using cephalexin-induced filamentation and shows that persister awakening is stochastic at the single-cell level.