Nontoxic antimicrobials that evade drug resistance

Drugs that act more promiscuously provide fewer routes for the emergence of resistant mutants. This benefit, however, often comes at the cost of serious off-target and dose-limiting toxicities. The classic example is the antifungal amphotericin B (AmB), which has evaded resistance for more than half...

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Main Authors: Davis, Stephen A, Endo, Matthew M, Whitesell, Luke, Marchillo, Karen, Andes, David R, Burke, Martin D, Vincent, Benjamin Matteson, Lindquist, Susan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105472
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-882X