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Gradual depletion of oxygen causes the shift-down of aerobic growing
<jats:italic>Mycobacterium bovis</jats:italic>
BCG to an anaerobic synchronized state of nonreplicating persistence. The persistent culture shows induction of glycine dehydrogenase and α-crystallin-like protein and is sensitive to metronidazole.
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