Abstract:There is growing awareness that our ability to tackle antibiotic resistance is limited by a lack of mechanistic understanding of the communities in which resistant microbes are embedded. The widespread coexistence of resistant and sensitive bacteria in microbial systems presents an especially frustrating paradox. Recent advances in ecological coexistence theory offer a powerful framework to probe the mechanisms regulating intra-and inter-specific coexistence, but the significance of this body of theory to the … Show more
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