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Read AF, Huijben S. Evolutionary biology and the avoidance of antimicrobial resistance. Evol Appl. 2009;2(1):40-51doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00066.x.
Read, A. F., & Huijben, S. (2009). Evolutionary biology and the avoidance of antimicrobial resistance. Evolutionary applications, 2(1), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00066.x
Read, Andrew F, and Huijben, Silvie. "Evolutionary biology and the avoidance of antimicrobial resistance." Evolutionary applications vol. 2,1 (2009): 40-51. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00066.x
Read AF, Huijben S. Evolutionary biology and the avoidance of antimicrobial resistance. Evol Appl. 2009 Feb;2(1):40-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00066.x. PMID: 25567846; PMCID: PMC3352414.
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Evol Appl. 2009 Feb;2(1):40-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00066.x.

Evolutionary biology and the avoidance of antimicrobial resistance.

Evolutionary applications

Andrew F Read, Silvie Huijben

Affiliations

  1. Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA, USA.
  2. Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA, USA ; School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UK.

PMID: 25567846 PMCID: PMC3352414 DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00066.x

Abstract

Evolutionary biologists have largely left the search for solutions to the drug resistance crisis to biomedical scientists, physicians, veterinarians and public health specialists. We believe this is because the vast majority of professional evolutionary biologists consider the evolutionary science of drug resistance to be conceptually uninteresting. Using malaria as case study, we argue that it is not. We review examples of evolutionary thinking that challenge various fallacies dominating antimalarial therapy, and discuss open problems that need evolutionary insight. These problems are unlikely to be resolved by biomedical scientists ungrounded in evolutionary biology. Involvement by evolutionary biologists in the science of drug resistance requires no intellectual compromises: the problems are as conceptually challenging as they are important.

Keywords: Plasmodium; antibiotic resistance; drug resistance; malaria

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