Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance

It has long been assumed that resistance to antibiotics reduces the fitness of disease-causing bacteria, but experiments on Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever, are now challenging this view.

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Autor principal: Dutta, Shanta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2013
Materias:
Epidemiology and Global Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24327563
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01809
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spelling pubmed-38579152013-12-12 Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance Dutta, Shanta eLife Epidemiology and Global Health It has long been assumed that resistance to antibiotics reduces the fitness of disease-causing bacteria, but experiments on Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes Typhoid fever, are now challenging this view. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2013-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3857915/ /pubmed/24327563 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01809 Text en Copyright © 2013, Dutta http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
title Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
title_full Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
title_fullStr Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
title_full_unstemmed Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
title_short Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
title_sort fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance
topic Epidemiology and Global Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3857915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24327563
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01809
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