Evolution of antibiotic resistance is linked to any genetic mechanism affecting bacterial duration of carriage.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on January 17, 2017

Authors

Sonja Lehtinen1,2, François Blanquart2, Nicholas J Croucher2, Paul Turner3,4, Marc Lipsitch5,6,7, Christophe Fraser8

Author Affiliations

1: Oxford Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF United Kingdom; s.lehtinen@imperial.ac.uk.
2: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG United Kingdom.
3: Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot 63110, Thailand.
4: Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ United Kingdom.
5: Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
6: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
7: Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
8: Oxford Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF United Kingdom.

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