Article
Mode of selection and experimental evolution of antiviral drugs resistance in vesicular stomatitis virus.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2005
Cuevas José M, Sanjuán Rafael, Moya Andrés, Elena Santiago F
Abstract excerpt
The possession of an antiviral resistance mutation benefits a virus when the corresponding antiviral is present. But does the resistant virus pay a fitness cost when the antiviral is absent? Would an evolutionary history of association between a genotype and a resistance mutation overcome this cost by changes compensating the harmful side-effect of resistance mutations? Are combined therapies more effective...
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