Rotating antibiotics does not minimize selection for resistance

Sebastian Bonhoeffer; Pia Abel zur Wiesch; Roger D. Kouyos

doi:10.3934/mbe.2010.7.919

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2010, Volume 7, Issue 4: 919-922. Doi: 10.3934/mbe.2010.7.919

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Rotating antibiotics does not minimize selection for resistance

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Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zurich

Received: August 2010

Revised: September 2010

Published: September 2010

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 92B05, 92C50, 92D30, 93C15.

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