Evolutionary History and Strength of Selection Determine the Rate of Antibiotic Resistance Adaptation.

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Bacterial adaptation to stressful environments often produces evolutionary constraints whereby increases in resistance are associated with reduced fitness in a different environment. The exploitation of this resistance-cost trade-off has been proposed as the basis of rational antimicrobial treatment strategies designed to limit the evolution of drug resistance in bacterial pathogens. Recent theoretical,...

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