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Plasmids and evolutionary rescue by drug resistance.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2014
Tazzyman Samuel J, Bonhoeffer Sebastian
Abstract excerpt
Antibiotic resistance provides evolutionary rescue for bacterial populations under the threat of extinction through antibiotics. It can arise de novo through mutation in the population, or be obtained from other bacterial populations via the transfer of a resistance-conferring plasmid. We use sto...
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