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Adaptation or selection? Old issues and new stakes in the postwar debates over bacterial drug resistance.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Mar 2007

Creager Angela N H

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The 1940s and 1950s were marked by intense debates over the origin of drug resistance in microbes. Bacteriologists had traditionally invoked the notions of 'training' and 'adaptation' to account for the ability of microbes to acquire new traits. As the field of bacterial genetics emerged, however...

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PMID: 17324813
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2006.06.016

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