Harnessing evolutionary biology to combat infectious disease
Updated: 2012-02-12 16:36:39
Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolution and medicine in undergraduate education : a prescription for all biology . students Fast evolution of bacteria after a host shift Harnessing evolutionary biology to combat infectious disease Feb 12th , 2012 by The Editors By Tom J Little , Judith E Allen , Simon A Babayan , Keith R Matthews Nick , Colegrave In Nature Medicine 18 : 217–220 2012 doi:10.1038 nm.2572 not open access Abstract Pathogens have remarkable abilities to flout therapeutic intervention . This characteristic is driven by evolution , either as a direct response to intervention for example , the evolution of antibiotic resistance or through long-term co-evolution that generates host or parasite traits that