We amplified slightly the points about how a ‘standing crop’ of mainly non-growing bacteria (else it would be sepsis) must reflect a balance between resuscitation, growth and clearance, and how these and related questions (e.g.
We added references to some work that we had missed, e.g. We clarified the meaning of “reversibility” (of growth/non-growth) in terms of states vs mechanisms. We rehearsed a little more some of our areas of ignorance of the detailed physiological states that these high-level, replicatorily observable phenotypes represent. This summary of the differences between versions 2 and 1 is very short, since we simply made modifications as described in our response to the referees’ very helpful comments, particularly around recognising the semantic issues (persistence ‘vs’ dormancy).
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