Resistance Evolution against Phage Combinations Depends on the Timing and Order of Exposure

ABSTRACT Phage therapy is a promising alternative to chemotherapeutic antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial infections. However, despite recent clinical uses of combinations of phages to treat multidrug-resistant infections, a mechanistic understanding of how bacteria evolve resistance against...

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Main Authors: Rosanna C. T. Wright, Ville-Petri Friman, Margaret C. M. Smith, Michael A. Brockhurst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-10-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01652-19