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Evolution of Resistance to Continuously Increasing Streptomycin Concentrations in Populations of Escherichia coli.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 14 Dec 2015
Spagnolo Fabrizio, Rinaldi Conrad, Sajorda Dannah Rae, Dykhuizen Daniel E
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The evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria has become one of the defining problems in modern biology. Bacterial resistance to antimicrobial therapy threatens to eliminate one of the pillars of the practice of modern medicine. Yet, in spite of the importance of this problem, only recently have the dynamics of the shift from antibiotic sensitivity to resistance in a bacterial population been studied. In...
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