Exploiting evolutionary non-commutativity to prevent the emergence of bacterial antibiotic resistance
Daniel Nichol, Peter Jeavons, Alexander G Fletcher, Robert A Bonomo, Philip K Maini, Jerome L Paul, Robert A Gatenby, Alexander RA Anderson, Jacob G Scott
This paper develops a Markov Chain model to analyze antibiotic resistance emergence in E. coli and shows that drug sequencing can probabilistically steer populations away from resistance.
bioRxiv · Feb 10, 2015Evolutionary Biology