Article
Non-genetic resistance facilitates survival while hindering the evolution of drug resistance due to intraspecific competition.
Physical biology - 8 Sept 2022
Guthrie Joshua D, Charlebois Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
Rising rates of resistance to antimicrobial drugs threaten the effective treatment of infections across the globe. Drug resistance has been established to emerge from non-genetic mechanisms as well as from genetic mechanisms. However, it is still unclear how non-genetic resistance affects the evolution of genetic drug resistance. We develop deterministic and stochastic population models that incorporate resource...
Topics
- Drug Resistance
- Humans
- Mutation
- Population Dynamics
- Probability
