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Anti-microbial resistance and aging-A design for evolution.
WIREs mechanisms of disease - 1 Jan 2000
Nepalia Amrita, Fernandes Sheryl Erica, Singh Harpreet, Rana Shweta, Saini Deepak Kumar
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The emergence of resistance to anti-infective agents poses a significant threat to successfully treating infections caused by bacteria. Bacteria acquire random mutations due to exposure to environmental stresses, which may increase their fitness to other selection pressures. Interestingly, for bacteria, the frequency of anti-microbial resistance (AMR) seems to be increasing in tandem with the human lifespan....
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