Drug Resistance

Reports from University of Arizona describe recent advances in drug resistance

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 19th, 2009

"Many of the greatest challenges in medicine and public health involve the evolution of drug resistance by pathogens. Recent advances in the theory of natural selection suggest that there are two broad classes of pathogen traits that can be targeted by drugs or vaccines," investigators in the United States report.

"The first class, consisting of traits that benefit the individual organisms bearing them, causes a strong evolutionary response and the rapid emergence of drug resistance. The second class, consisting of traits that benefit groups of pathogen organisms including the individual provider, causes a weaker evolutionary response and less drug resistance. Although...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-01-19)

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