High potency of sequential therapy with only β-lactam antibiotics

Evolutionary adaptation is a major source of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens. Evolution-informed therapy aims to constrain resistance by accounting for bacterial evolvability. Sequential treatments with antibiotics that target different bacterial processes were previously shown to limit...

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Main Authors: Aditi Batra, Roderich Roemhild, Emilie Rousseau, Sören Franzenburg, Stefan Niemann, Hinrich Schulenburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2021-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/68876