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Measuring single-cell susceptibility to antibiotics within monoclonal bacterial populations

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Abstract Given the emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance, it is critical to understand the heterogeneity of response to an antibiotic within a population of cells. Since the drug can exert a selection pressure that leads to the emergence of resistant phenotypes. To date, neither bulk nor single-cell methods are able to link the heterogeneity of single-cell susceptibility to the population-scale response to antibiotics. Here we present a platform that measures the ability of individual E. coli cells to form small colonies at different ciprofloxacin concentrations, by using anchored microfluidic drops and an image and data analysis pipelines. The microfluidic results are benchmarked against classical microbiology measurements of antibiotic susceptibility, showing an agreement between the pooled microfluidic chip and replated bulk measurements. Further, the experimental likelihood of a single cell to form a colony is used to provide a probabilistic antibiotic susceptibility curve. In addition to the probabilistic viewpoint, the microfluidic format enables the characterization of morphological features over time for a large number of individual cells. This pipeline can be used to compare the response of different bacterial strains to antibiotics with different action mechanisms.
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pasteur-04098369 , version 1 (15-05-2023)

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Lena Le Quellec, Andrey Aristov, Salomé Gutiérrez Ramos, Gabriel Amselem, Julia Bos, et al.. Measuring single-cell susceptibility to antibiotics within monoclonal bacterial populations. 2023. ⟨pasteur-04098369⟩
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