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Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient emergence of antimicrobial resistance.
Nature reviews. Microbiology - 1 Oct 2024
Shepherd Matthew J, Fu Taoran, Harrington Niamh E, Kottara Anastasia, Cagney Kendall, Chalmers James D, Paterson Steve, Fothergill Joanne L, Brockhurst Michael A
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The ecological and evolutionary mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emergence within patients and how these vary across bacterial infections are poorly understood. Increasingly widespread use of pathogen genome sequencing in the clinic enables a deeper understanding of these processes. In this Review, we explore the clinical evidence to support four major mechanisms of within-patient AMR emergence in...
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