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The fix is in

Resistance to antibiotics is a hot topic in microbiology, but there is much less coverage on resistance to vaccines. The associated risk to disease control has potentially devastating implications, but advances are being made towards smarter vaccine design that reduces the risk of antibiotic-resistant disease.

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Fig. 1: Dynamics of a multi-strain response to vaccine selection.

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Bentley, S. The fix is in. Nat Microbiol 5, 393–394 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0677-1

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