Article
Quantifying the Determinants of Evolutionary Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance.
PLoS biology - 1 Jan 2015
Chevereau Guillaume, Dravecká Marta, Batur Tugce, Guvenek Aysegul, Ayhan Dilay Hazal, Toprak Erdal, Bollenbach Tobias
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of drug resistant pathogens is a serious public health problem. It is a long-standing goal to predict rates of resistance evolution and design optimal treatment strategies accordingly. To this end, it is crucial to reveal the underlying causes of drug-specific differences in the evolutionary dynamics leading to resistance. However, it remains largely unknown why the rates of resistance evolution via...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli K12
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Deletion
- Genetic Fitness
