Steering evolution with sequential therapy to prevent the emergence of bacterial antibiotic resistance

The increasing rate of antibiotic resistance and slowing discovery of novel antibiotic treatments presents a growing threat to public health. Here, we consider a simple model of evolution in asexually reproducing populations which considers adaptation as a biased random walk on a fitness landscape....

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Hlavní autoři: Nichol, D, Jeavons, P, Fletcher, A, Bonomo, R, Maini, P, Paul, J, Gatenby, R, Anderson, A, Scott, J
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Public Library of Science 2015