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. 2018 Feb 22;172(5):1136-1136.e1.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.018.

Antibiotic Resistance

Idan Yelin  1 , Roy Kishony  2
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Antibiotic Resistance

Idan Yelin et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

Bacterial mechanisms of drug resistance operate at sequential lines of defense tackling drug at entry, accumulation, target binding, or downstream toxicity. These mechanisms are encoded by genomic changes ranging in scale from point mutations, through assembly of preexisting genetic elements, to horizontal import of genes from the environment. A many-to-many relationship prevails between resistance mechanisms and the spectrum of genetic changes encoding them.

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