Paper 24 May 2022

Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance

Gitta De Wit, Luka Svet, Bram Lories and Hans Steenackers collected their insights on the potential impact of interspecies social behavior on different aspects of resistance development in a review paper in the 76th volume of Annual Review of Microbiology. In this paper, factors are discussed by which interspecies interactions might influence resistance evolution, and a distinction is made between the effect on (a) the emergence of a resistant mutant and (b) the spread of this resistance throughout the population.