Article
The population dynamics of antimicrobial chemotherapy.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Feb 1997
Lipsitch M, Levin B R
Abstract excerpt
We present and analyze a series of mathematical models for the emergence of resistance during antibiotic treatment of an infected host. The models consider the population dynamics of antibiotic-sensitive and -resistant bacteria during the course of treatment and addresses the following problems:...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacteria
- Bacterial Infections
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Drug Therapy, Combination
- Models, Theoretical
- Mutation