Projektnummer

0065316

Zusammenfassung

Antimicrobial resistance poses a serious threat to public health. Drug resistance is a pervasive problem in the treatment of infectious diseases regardless of the nature of pathogens and parasites. Current strategies to tackle drug resistance are almost entirely focused on drug development and prudent use of drugs. While important,we argue that these strategies are not sufficient. They need to be augmented by approaches that explicitly acknowledge and study the dynamics of drug resistance evolution to allow the prediction of drug resistance evolution. Such predictions would shift the t...