Fitness gains hamper efforts to tackle drug resistance

Dutta, S.

Elife 2: E01809

2013


ISSN/ISBN: 2050-084X
PMID: 24327563
Document Number: 241414
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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