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New recipe for targeting resistance

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The rapid spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria demands novel treatment approaches that delay or even reverse the evolution of resistance. A new screening strategy identifies two compounds that select against a common tetracycline-resistance gene in Escherichia coli.

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Figure 1: Compounds that select against tetracycline resistance.

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  1. Balázs Papp and Viktória Lázár are in the Synthetic and Systems Biology Unit, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary.,

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Papp, B., Lázár, V. New recipe for targeting resistance. Nat Chem Biol 12, 891–892 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2215

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