Article
Strain Diversity and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2017
Borrell Sonia, Trauner Andrej
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistance is best thought of as an ongoing biological process. Resistant bacteria must emerge, become established and ultimately transmit in order to be relevant to human health. In this context, genetic diversity can influence the rate and likelihood of resistance emerging; it can also modulate the net physiological impact of resistance and the propensity of an organism to improve any defects that arise...
Topics
- Antitubercular Agents
- Biological Evolution
- Clone Cells
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Genetic Fitness
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Humans
- Likelihood Functions
