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ArticleJournal of mathematical biology2010

Senescence and antibiotic resistance in an age-structured population model.

Patrick De Leenheer, Jack Dockery, Tomás Gedeon, Sergei S Pilyugin

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Article in Journal of mathematical biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Patrick De LeenheerDepartment of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611-8105, USA. deleenhe@ufl.edu
Jack Dockery
Tomás Gedeon
Sergei S Pilyugin
Montana State University · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Different theories have been proposed to understand the growing problem of antibiotic resistance of microbial populations. Here we investigate a model that is based on the hypothesis that senescence is a possible explanation for the existence of so-called persister cells which are resistant to antibiotic treatment. We study a chemostat model with a microbial population which is age-structured and show that if the growth rates of cells in different age classes are sufficiently close to a scalar multiple of a common growth rate, then the population will globally stabilize at a coexistence steady state. This steady state persists under an antibiotic treatment if the level of antibiotics is below a certain threshold; if the level exceeds this threshold, the washout state becomes a globally attracting equilibrium.

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Models, BiologicalAgingAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaBacterial InfectionsBioreactorsDrug Resistance, BacterialHumansAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID19908044
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