Sentences with phrase «emergence of drug resistance»

For example, by targeting the human body, or host, instead of the virus, the drug is likely to avoid the rapid emergence of drug resistance that often plagues the use of ARVs.

The scientists were able to characterise distinct genetic patterns or «fingerprints» for each of the strains, showing the approach offers a rapid and novel way to detect and track the global emergence of drug resistance.

Suprainfection results from the emergence of drug resistance and is identified when a new infection appears while being treated for a primary infection.

Widespread use of these drugs has led to the emergence of drug resistance.

So by limiting this nutrient, we prevented the emergence of drug resistance.»

This work suggests a new direction of study that would allow researchers to capitalize on the natural competition between pathogens to control the emergence of drug resistance.

This approach will also decrease the possibility of the emergence of drug resistance.»

Limiting a much - needed resource could pit pathogens against one another and prevent the emergence of drug resistance.

«Importantly, fighting a pathogen by hitting an enzyme from the host cell is likely to slow the emergence of drug resistance, because the pathogen can not easily escape through the selection of target mutations,» Professor Doerig said.

His main research interests are population genetics and evolutionary events that shape the emergence of drug resistance.

Western Cambodia appears to be a hotspot for the emergence of drug resistance, but it is not fully known why.

In a perspective piece that accompanies the paper, Joseph Heitman of Duke University Medical Center states, «The emergence of drug resistance in pathogenic microbes provides a resounding validation of Darwinian evolution.»

Many existing treatments for malaria - one of the deadliest infectious diseases - target only one stage of the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite that causes the disease, and are further limited by the emergence of drug resistance in particular strains.