期刊
EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS
卷 5, 期 6, 页码 575-582出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2011.00236.x
关键词
coevolution; fitness cost; immigration; mutator bacteria; phage therapy
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31070379, 31030014, 31121003]
- European Research Council
- Leverhulme Trust
The evolution of multi-antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens, often resulting from de novo mutations, is creating a public health crisis. Phages show promise for combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the efficacy of which, however, may also be limited by resistance evolution. Here, we suggest that phages may be used as supplements to antibiotics in treating initially sensitive bacteria to prevent resistance evolution, as phages are unaffected by most antibiotics and there should be little cross-resistance to antibiotics and phages. In vitro experiments using the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens, a lytic phage, and the antibiotic kanamycin supported this prediction: an antibioticphage combination dramatically decreased the chance of bacterial population survival that indicates resistance evolution, compared with antibiotic treatment alone, whereas the phage alone did not affect bacterial survival. This effect of the combined treatment in preventing resistance evolution was robust to immigration of bacteria from an untreated environment, but not to immigration from environment where the bacteria had coevolved with the phage. By contrast, an isogenic hypermutable strain constructed from the wild-type P.similar to fluorescens evolved resistance to all treatments regardless of immigration, but typically suffered very large fitness costs. These results suggest that an antibioticphage combination may show promise as an antimicrobial strategy.
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