image: Treatment with phages or antibiotics individually can lead to resistance evolution. An evolutionarily informed phage-antibiotic combination however, can reduce resistance evolution. Created with Biorender.
Credit: Lavisha Parab (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Article title: Chloramphenicol and gentamicin reduce the evolution of resistance to phage ΦX174 by suppressing a subset of E. coli LPS mutants
Author countries: Germany
Funding: This work was generously supported by funds from the Max Planck Society (L.P.-F.B.). L.P. was supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (IMPRS EvolBio). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS Biology
Method of Research
Experimental study
Subject of Research
Cells
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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.