When you become very good at one thing, that sometimes comes at the expense of something else. Such trade-offs also apply to bacteria. When becoming more resistant to one antibiotic, bacteria can sometimes become more sensitive to another. Linda Aulin, Ph.D. candidate in the pharmacology group of Coen van Hasselt now try to figure out how we can use this phenomenon to combat the emergence of antibiotic resistance in patients. Their publication appears in Nature Communications.
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