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...

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Main Authors: Danna R Gifford, Ernesto Berríos-Caro, Christine Joerres, Marc Suñé, Jessica H Forsyth, Anish Bhattacharyya, Tobias Galla, Christopher G Knight
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010791