A New Antibiotic and the Evolution of Resistance
Authors:
- Cesar A AriasCACesar A Arias
- Barbara E MurrayBMBarbara E Murray
- 19 March 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 372 (12) , 1168-1170
Abstract
The isolation and cultivation of antibiotic-producing bacteria can yield a rich supply of bacteria that produce new antibiotics to which pathogens are sensitive. However, predicting the evolution of pathogen resistance to these antibiotics is tricky.Keywords
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