Drug resistance in community-acquired respiratory tract infections: role for an emerging antibacterial
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Drug resistance in community-acquired respiratory tract infections: role for an emerging antibacterial
The nasopharynx is the ecological niche where evolution towards resistance occurs in respiratory tract isolates. Dynamics of different bacterial populations in antibiotic-free multibacterial niches are the baseline that antibiotic treatments can alter by shifting the competitive balance in favor of resistant populations. For this reason, antibiotic resistance is increasingly being considered to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Drug Resistance
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1178-6973
DOI: 10.2147/idr.s8964