Predicting the emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-7

  Cowen, Leah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Antibiotic resistance; Antifungal resistance; Evolutionary potential; Experimental evolution; Sequence space

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; FLUCONAZOLE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035899919     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00362-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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