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Choice of β-Lactam Resistance Pathway Depends Critically on Initial Antibiotic Concentration.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 16 Jul 2021
Ruelens Philip, de Visser J Arjan G M
Abstract excerpt
Antibiotic resistance trajectories with different final resistance may critically depend on the first mutation, due to epistatic interactions. Here, we study the effect of mutation bias and the concentration-dependent effects on fitness of two clinically important mutations in TEM-1 β-lactamase in initiating alternative trajectories to cefotaxime resistance. We show that at low cefotaxime concentrations, the...
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