Reconciling Pasteur and Darwin to control infectious diseases

The continual emergence of new pathogens and the increased spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations remind us that microbes are living entities that evolve at rates that impact public health interventions. Following the historical thread of the works of Pasteur and Darwin shows how r...

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Autores principales: Alizon, Samuel, Méthot, Pierre-Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29346373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003815
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spelling pubmed-57902812018-02-13 Reconciling Pasteur and Darwin to control infectious diseases Alizon, Samuel Méthot, Pierre-Olivier PLoS Biol Essay The continual emergence of new pathogens and the increased spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations remind us that microbes are living entities that evolve at rates that impact public health interventions. Following the historical thread of the works of Pasteur and Darwin shows how reconciling clinical microbiology, ecology, and evolution can be instrumental to understanding pathology, developing new therapies, and prolonging the efficiency of existing ones. Public Library of Science 2018-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5790281/ /pubmed/29346373 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003815 Text en © 2018 Alizon, Méthot http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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