Impact of Strain Competition on Bacterial Resistance in Immunocompromised Populations.

ABSTRACT: Despite the risk of emerging drug resistance that occurs with the frequent use of antimicrobial agents, targeted and prophylactic antibiotics have been considered crucial to opportunistic infection management among the HIV/AIDS-immunocompromised. As we recently demonstrated, the disrupted selective pressures that occur in AIDS-prevalent host populations increase the probability of novel emergence. This effect is concerning, given that bacterial strains unresponsive to first-line antibiotics can be particularly dangerous to hosts whose immune response is insufficient to fight infection in the absence of antibiotic support. While greater host susceptibility within a highly immunocompromised population may offer a fitness advantage to drug-resistant bacterial strains, this advantage could be

SUBMITTER: DeNegre AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7148506 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature