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Antibiotics modulate E. coli’s resistance to phages



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Antibiotics modulate E. coli’s resistance to phages 

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Treatment with phages or antibiotics individually can lead to resistance evolution. An evolutionarily informed phage-antibiotic combination however, can reduce resistance evolution. Created with Biorender.

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Credit: Lavisha Parab (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)




In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Biologyhttp://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002952

Article title: Chloramphenicol and gentamicin reduce the evolution of resistance to phage ΦX174 by suppressing a subset of E. coli LPS mutants

Author countries: Germany

Funding: This work was generously supported by funds from the Max Planck Society (L.P.-F.B.). L.P. was supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (IMPRS EvolBio). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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