抗生物質耐性をターゲットに 病原体ごとに

Sylvain Meylan1, Ian W Andrews2, James J Collins3

  • 1Department of Biomedicine, Basel University Hospital, Basel, CH-4031, Switzerland; Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, CH-4031, Switzerland; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Cell
|March 10, 2018
PubMed
まとめ

抗生物質耐性により 細菌は抗生物質に耐えており 感染症の重症度が増加します 病原体特有の耐性メカニズムを理解することは,薬剤耐性感染症に対する標的治療の開発の鍵です.

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