Population structure across scales facilitates coexistence and spatial heterogeneity of antibiotic-resistant infections.
Antibiotic-resistant infections are a growing threat to human health, but basic features of the eco-evolutionary dynamics remain unexplained. Most prominently, there is no clear mechanism for the long-term coexistence of both drug-sensitive and resistant strains at intermediate levels, a ubiquitous...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008010 |