Mutators can drive the evolution of multi-resistance to antibiotics.
Antibiotic combination therapies are an approach used to counter the evolution of resistance; their purported benefit is they can stop the successive emergence of independent resistance mutations in the same genome. Here, we show that bacterial populations with 'mutators', organisms with d...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010791 |