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Emerging patterns of plasmid-host coevolution that stabilize antibiotic resistance.
Scientific reports - 7 Jul 2017
Stalder Thibault, Rogers Linda M, Renfrow Chris, Yano Hirokazu, Smith Zachary, Top Eva M
Abstract excerpt
Multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens have become a serious global human health threat, and conjugative plasmids are important drivers of the rapid spread of resistance to last-resort antibiotics. Whereas antibiotics have been shown to select for adaptation of resistance plasmids to their new bacterial hosts, or vice versa, a general evolutionary mechanism has not yet emerged. Here we conducted an experimental...
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