sentences:  These papers set the stage for Domingue and his team to delve even further into the role that cryptic atypical bacteria play in causing persistent and recurrent infections.In 1997, he and a colleague, the late Hannah Woody published an invited extensive review article on chronic bacterial infection in "Clinical Microbiological Reviews".Among their conclusions was the claim that "difficult to culture and dormant bacteria are involved in the latency of infection and that these persistent bacteria may be pathogenic."