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Robust Prediction of Resistance to Trimethoprim in Staphylococcus aureus.
Cell chemical biology - 15 Mar 2018
Fowler Philip W, Cole Kevin, Gordon N Claire, Kearns Angela M, Llewelyn Martin J, Peto Tim E A, Crook Derrick W, Walker A Sarah
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The rise of antibiotic resistance threatens modern medicine; to combat it new diagnostic methods are required. Sequencing the whole genome of a pathogen offers the potential to accurately determine which antibiotics will be effective to treat a patient. A key limitation of this approach is that it cannot classify rare or previously unseen mutations. Here we demonstrate that alchemical free energy methods, a...
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