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Bacterial multicellularity as a possible source of antibiotic resistance.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Apr 2003
Krasovec R, Jerman I
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Knowledge about survival of micro-organisms in stressful situations not only influences the evolutionary theory in a fundamental way, but bears an extraordinary importance in finding a global solution to a very concrete urgent problem of mankind, namely bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Recent in vitro experiments demonstrate that the adaptive mutation process involving transient hypermutators could be one of...
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