Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26722002›Full record

ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2016

Multidrug evolutionary strategies to reverse antibiotic resistance.

Michael Baym, Laura K Stone, Roy Kishony

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 345 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
345citing papers in PubMed
15.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

345 citing papers in PubMed, 733 citations in OpenAlex.

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285 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael BaymDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Laura K StoneDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Roy KishonyDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Department of Biology and Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. rkishony@technion.ac.il.
Center for Systems Biology · USHarvard University · US

Funding

The population genetics of antibiotic resistance in multi-drug environmentsR01GM081617 · NIGMS · TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KISHONY, ROY · 2007 to 2018
$3.7M
European Research Council 281891NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM081617NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM081617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotic treatment has two conflicting effects: the desired, immediate effect of inhibiting bacterial growth and the undesired, long-term effect of promoting the evolution of resistance. Although these contrasting outcomes seem inextricably linked, recent work has revealed several ways by which antibiotics can be combined to inhibit bacterial growth while, counterintuitively, selecting against resistant mutants. Decoupling treatment efficacy from the risk of resistance can be achieved by exploiting specific interactions between drugs, and the ways in which resistance mutations to a given drug can modulate these interactions or increase the sensitivity of the bacteria to other compounds. Although their practical application requires much further development and validation, and relies on advances in genomic diagnostics, these discoveries suggest novel paradigms that may restrict or even reverse the evolution of resistance.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaDrug Resistance, BacterialHumansMutationSelection, GeneticAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID26722002
PMCPMC5496981
OpenAlexW2222642144

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