A window of opportunity to control the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa combining antibiotics and phages.

The evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a global concern and the use of bacteriophages alone or in combined therapies is attracting increasing attention as an alternative. Evolutionary theory predicts that the probability of bacterial resistance to both phages and antibiotics will be l...

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Main Authors: Clara Torres-Barceló, Flor I Arias-Sánchez, Marie Vasse, Johan Ramsayer, Oliver Kaltz, Michael E Hochberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4178015?pdf=render