Combining antibiotics with antivirulence compounds can have synergistic effects and reverse selection for antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Antibiotics are losing efficacy due to the rapid evolution and spread of resistance. Treatments targeting bacterial virulence factors have been considered as alternatives because they target virulence instead of pathogen viability, and should therefore exert weaker selection for resistance than conv...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-08-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000805 |