Persisters are not an adaptation specifically to antibiotics; their hallmark antibiotic tolerance is attributable to their metabolic inactivity, which is triggered by several redundant pathways, including those that govern stress response (Shah et al., 2006; Lewis, 2010; Amato et al., 2013; Amato and Brynildsen, 2014).
Similarly, HDR brachytherapy may have a higher threshold tolerance than EBRT, attributable to different radioactive sources.
RNA blot analysis indicated that the extreme salt tolerance of Thellungiella might be attributable to the constitutively higher expression of genes functioning in the Na+ transport system.
Outbreaks have been linked to hospital water sources in adult critical care units (8, 13 ); these outbreaks have been suggested to be attributable to the tolerance exhibited by Elizabethkingia species to such environments.
Interestingly, the uORF SNP was found only in Sahara 3771 and the other eight Sahara accessions, suggesting that tolerance to high soil B attributable to this locus is very rare.
We believe, therefore, that under the experimental conditions employed here, the diminished CD8+ T cell response observed in the liver after IV virus administration was not easily attributable to high dose tolerance based on the size of the inoculum employed.
The report of more pulmonary cases in children might be attributable to a lower tolerance of hydatid cyst development in pulmonary tissue in children, and thus they were more likely to present for treatment [ 13].
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have reduced quality of life and ability to perform activities of daily living attributable to diminished exercise tolerance, and dietary nitrate may be able to ameliorate this.
Their popularity in other areas such as South America and Europe, into which they have been imported, is attributable mainly to their heat tolerance, drought resistance, and resistance to fever ticks and other insects.
