Static recipient cells as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance during antibiotic therapy

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 436-451

  Willms, Allan R ^a   Roughan, Paul D ^b   Heinemann, Jack A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Differential equations; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmid persistence

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; DRUG RESISTANCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PLASMID;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33845546526     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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