Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Design principles of collateral sensitivity-based dosing strategies

  • Linda B. S. Aulin,
  • Apostolos Liakopoulos,
  • Piet H. van der Graaf,
  • Daniel E. Rozen,
  • J. G. Coen van Hasselt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25927-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Collateral sensitivity-based antibiotic treatments may have the potential to limit the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. Here, the authors use mathematical modelling to study the effects of pathogen- and drug-specific characteristics for different treatment designs on bacterial population dynamics and resistance evolution.