Biology & Life Sciences

Open Highlights: Understanding and Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance

Published August 25, 2017 Curated Collections

Given the importance of antibiotics to modern medicine, and the growing apprehension surrounding the threat of resistance, this Open Highlights Collection looks at the cellular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, the evolution and spread of resistance, and techniques for combating resistance. Open Highlights use recent PLOS Biology research articles as keystones around which to nucleate a short synthesis of up to ten related research articles from other PLOS journals and from the wider Open Access corpus.

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PLOS Biology Understanding and overcoming antibiotic resistance
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