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Yuval Mulla1, Tobias Bollenbach2
1Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany; Molecular Microbiology Section, Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-Life), Vrije Universiteit, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Antibiotic resistance is often studied in vitro, limiting the understanding of in vivo mechanisms that affect antibiotic treatment. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Rodrigues et al. show that specific mutations allow bacteria to invade intestinal cells in a mouse model, thereby evading antibiotic treatment.

