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Brief antibiotic use drives human gut bacteria towards low-cost resistance.
Nature - 1 May 2025
Yaffe Eitan, Dethlefsen Les, Patankar Arati V, Gui Chen, Holmes Susan, Relman David A
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the relationship between antibiotic use and the evolution of antimicrobial resistance is vital for effective antibiotic stewardship. Yet, animal models and in vitro experiments poorly replicate real-world conditions1. To explain how resistance evolves in vivo, we exposed 60 human participants to ciprofloxacin and used longitudinal stool samples and a new computational method to assemble the genomes...
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