Counteraction of antibiotic production and degradation stabilizes microbial communities

Eric D. Kelsic, Jeffrey Zhao, Kalin Vetsigian () and Roy Kishony ()
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Eric D. Kelsic: Harvard Medical School
Jeffrey Zhao: Harvard Medical School
Kalin Vetsigian: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Roy Kishony: Harvard Medical School

Nature, 2015, vol. 521, issue 7553, 516-519

Abstract: Mathematical modelling and simulations reveal that including antibiotic degraders in ecological models of microbial species interaction allows the system to robustly move towards an intermixed stable state, more representative of real-world observations.

Date: 2015
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