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Experimental evolution as an efficient tool to dissect adaptive paths to antibiotic resistance.
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2013
Jansen Gunther, Barbosa Camilo, Schulenburg Hinrich
Abstract excerpt
Antibiotic treatments increasingly fail due to rapid dissemination of drug resistance. Comparative genomics of clinical isolates highlights the role of de novo adaptive mutations and horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in the acquisition of resistance. Yet it cannot fully describe the selective pressures and evolutionary trajectories that yielded today's problematic strains. Experimental evolution offers a compelling...
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